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Sorry to be bothering everyone with this, but my beginning knowledge
of X has not been able to get me through this problem.  We've just
installed Emacs 18.53 on our Sun 3, SunOS 4.0.1 system and are having
a problem with Emacs' handling of displays.  The problem in general
seems to be that Emacs just won't open up a TCP/IP display.

A more specific example:
I login to consult1.its.rpi.edu and fire up my X11R3 server with
vanilla uwm.  I turn around and login to risk.its.rpi.edu, an
identical (for all practical purposes) machine.  From risk, I start
"emacs -display consult1.its.rpi.edu:0" and it complains about not
being able to connect to the X server; in fact, if I try using that
display from consult1, it still balks, although -display unix:0 works
as it should.  The problem does not seem to be with our network or
with X, as other X tools (xterm, xclock, xcalc, et al) work as
expected.

If anyone has any advice into this matter, I would greatly appreciate
it.  We seem to have a pretty standard configuration and why this
doesn't work is a complete mystery to me.

(By the way, looking at the code for x11term.c it appears as though
checking of the DISPLAY environment variable was taken out; is this
now directly supported in X11, making such a check unnecessary?)

Dave
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