[ On Monday, January 29, 2001 at 20:45:32 (+0100), wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: emacs and telnet
>
> i did not know that netbsd telnet passes DISPLAY variable to remote
> session and even change it (to hostname:0 from :0)
> it's very good :)

If I remember correctly telnet has beeing passing $DISPLAY to the remote
session for over a decade now.

As for changing it to ':0', well that sounds a whole lot more like
you're using SSH and not telnet....

In which case it might eventually have worked -- though if your
connection was low-bandwidth you might still have been trying to query
your X server for font and colour information when you interrupted it.

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