In message <19960616.004601.12@compton.demon.co.uk>,
    Tom Hughes wrote:

> Rik Griffin (riscbsd@CHEESEY.DEMON.CO.UK) wrote:
> 
> > If I type:
> > 
> > xterm -display cheesey.demon.co.uk
> > 
> > on a remote machine, do I need to set a DISPLAY variable ?
> 
> No. The -display switch overrides the current value of the DISPLAY
> variable.

You could try
 
   xterm -display cheesey.demon.co.uk:0
   
Please note the ":0" at the end. And make sure that cheesey.demon.co.uk
can be resolved correctly into an IP address.

Regards,
   Stefan

-- 
Stefan Voss
(voss@yoda.in-berlin.de)