Folks Anyone out there got any experience making Xfree86 V4.2.0 work with OpenVMS V6.2 and DECwindows? From reading around Google searches I gather there is a xf86cfg and/or accessx program that heps set up .Xauthority properly. Unfortunately I can not seem to find this on the copy I just installed on Win NT and XP.
The problem I have is that after setting up my display variable and starting an xterm, $SET DISP/CREATE/NODE=node/TRANSPORT=TCPIP and $CRE/TERM/DET in DCL, it returns 'cannot open display'. Digging around a little further it looks like my PC is rejecting the connection, error is 'connection rejected by node'. At first I thought this was because xauth was not configured properly. Unfortunately this older version of DECWindows does not support 'xauth generate' I noticed from Google that some one has configured XFree86 to use DECWindows so this is possible. Unfortunately I can't see what the magic button is that I have to push. My works, rather shockingly, has decided to adopt open source software in order to reduce costs. It's an airline so costs are a big deal at the moment. They have chosen Xfree86 as the preferred replacement to Exceed but no one appears to have tested it against VMS. Any one willing to deliver a clue by four? Dave "or a LART" Barlow