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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 08:56:16 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: How display graphic by cygwin
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Peng Yu wrote:
> 
> I use command
> ssh -X myaccount AT remotehost
> then acroread.
> But it dosen't work.

You're still getting "Can't open display"?  What is the value of the
DISPLAY variable once you've logged in to the remote host?  You may have
to set it before running ssh, i.e.  export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

Brian

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