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In article <1992Dec9.155020.19988@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
	mor@xenon.lcs.mit.edu (Ralph Mor) writes:
>In DEC PHIGS, the default workstation (specified by phigs$wstype and
>phigs$conid environment variables) is opened at OPEN PHIGS time.

OK, but what does this have to do with the list of workstations that
are supported by the connection?  The connection is still made at OPEN
PHIGS time, right?  When you connect to a PHIGS implementation it
should know what kinds of workstations are supported.

>The point is that OPEN WORKSTATION can open a workstation that is
>not the default.  So, INQUIRE WORKSTATION TYPES (which can be called
>before OPEN WORKSTATION), does not know ahead of time if there will
>be a connection to a valid PEX display.

I don't see how "default workstations" should change INQUIRE
WORKSTATION TYPES.  Or are you saying that the connection to the PEX
server isn't made until OPEN WORKSTATION time?  That doesn't sound
very smart.

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