My original posting:
> We have a number of PCs at our facility which use an application
> called eXceed that allows the PCs to emulate X terminals. These
> PCs then telnet to a Sun (4.1.3) and run under Openwindows. So far
> most of the Openwindows tools (cmdtool, mailtool, etc) are accessible.
> However, whenever pageview is invoked it exits with a "can't contact
> the NeWS display" message. The usual things such as xhost and DISPLAY
> are correct as evidenced by the fact that other Openwindows tools run
> as expected. Does anyone know what needs to be done to "contact the
> NeWS display"?
>
> FWIW, an NCD X terminal exhibits the same behavior. Also, we are
> temporarily using ghostview as a substitute for pageview, but for
> reasons not clear to me the users prefer pageview. (Go figure.)
The summary:
It seems our users are going to be using ghostview from now on. Here
are excerpts from three very succinct replies:
1) From Ted Nolan (ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com)
Sorry, you're out of luck. Sun's Openwindows combines an X server with a
NeWs server. NeWS is Sun's network PostScript interpreter (more or less).
No one else has one (everyone has just X or X+ true Adobe Display PostScript),
so you can't run Pageview (or for that matter any of the NeWS demos). Since
you can't run Pageview, you also can't run Answerbook, which is a real
pain.
NeWS support is dropped from Openwindows in Solaris 2.3, and DPS is added,
so in the future, you should be able to run Pageview on any Xterminal
that handles the DPS extension, but you still won't be able to run it on a
"plain" Xterminal (or X emulator).
2) From Steve Raffensberger (sdr@rdga3.att.com)
Pageview uses what's left of Sun's NEWS, which was based on
"display postscript". As such, it is kind of proprietary.
Regular X terminals and X emulators don't know anything about
it.
3) From Ed Strong (ems@ccrl.nj.nec.com)
NeWS is not X, it is more related to Display Postscript. Therefore
standard "pure" X servers can't support it. Sun's Openwindows support
both and and NeWS. NCD X terminals have an option you can purchase to
add display postscript to their X server.
End of summary.
My thanks to all respondents including those whose messages are en route.
Ted Nolan SRI Ft Gordon <ted@ags.ga.erg.sri.com>
greg harrison <greg.harrison@analog.com>
James J Dempsey <jjd@bbn.com>
Jody Smith <jpsmith@atmel.com>
rdga3!sdr (S. D. Raffensberger 52882 (RD))
Ed Strong <ems@ccrl.nj.nec.com>
seanw@amgen.com (Sean Ward)
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