On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <XFMail.970924080356.root@garbled.futureone.com> root@garbled.futureone.com (Tim Rightnour) writes:
> >I've had a number of problems with Solaris x86 compat and FreeBSD
> >compatability..  I had access to a solaris machine for awhile, and grabbed the
> >entire lib dir off it and installed it..  Normal bins ran just fine, however,
> >Xwindows programs (for solaris) would not, because they expect a local socket
> >while NetBSD XFree86 runs off a unix domain..  I never did figure out a way
> >around this one..  The FreeBSD problem was similar, where it looked for some
> >obscure library reference.. I think I could have overcome the FreeBSD problem
> >by installing the xlibs for FreeBSD into the emul dir.. but the solaris problem
> >was totally beyond me.
> 
> set your DISPLAY to be hostname:<screen>, so that you don't use the AF_UNIX
> socket, but an AF_INET connection.

Would localhost:<screen> be any better?

At what point in the IP stack will hostname:<screen> transmissions get
turned around? After they go out on the wire?

Take care,

Bill