Getting an omni xterm window on a PUCC PC

Click on the word START with the left mouse button (in the upper left corner of the Win95 screen) to expose a menu. Choose

/Standard Software/Telecommunications/X-Windows

and then highlight X-Win32 -- the last item in the menu. When a password dialogue box pops up, just click on CANCEL; this is a bug in the program.

After a few seconds (while a program called X-Win.exe runs and some files are installed), click on the X-Win32 task bar at the top of the screen and select X-Util32 from the resulting menu. An X-Win32 Utility window should appear in few (possibly many) seconds.

From the X-Win 32 Utility menu bar at the top of the X-Win32 Utility window, choose Sessions and select New Session.

Make the following selections in the resulting dialog box.

• Under Session Name type in the title of your session.
  For example, type omni.
• Under Connect Using select the rexec button.
• Check the Auto Startup check box.
• Under Window settings select the default button.
• Input the name of the machine you are going to connect to.
  

       omni.cc.purdue.edu
  

• Input your login in the Login edit box.
• In the Command box type the following as one long line:
  

/usr/local/X11R5/bin/xterm -ls -n omni -bg blue -fg white -display $DISPLAY

• HELPFUL HINT: Typing that last line is a bear. Instead, you can left mouse click on the start of the line and drag to highlight the whole line. Then select COPY from the EDIT menu of the X-Win32 Utility toolbar (or simply push CONTROL-C). Then left mouse click in the Command box and then right mouse click to expose a menu and select PASTE (or simply push CONTROL-V) and the long line will appear at the cursor.

• Input your password in the Password box.
• Click on the OK box.

  You may now close the X-Util32 window by clicking on the X in the upper right corner.

  Next, click on the X-Win32 box on the Taskbar at the top of your screen and choose Sessions from the resulting menu and select the session you recently configured (math). An xterm window from math should pop up soon. (If it doesn't, try this Trouble Shooting Tip.)

  If your xterm window comes up too large, left mouse click on the bar at the top of the math window and drag the window so that the upper right corner shows. Next click on the middle box in the upper right corner. The math window should resize perfectly to fit the whole screen.

  NOTE: If you find that your UNIX path variable is set to almost nothing, try typing

  source ~/.login
  

  You can switch back and forth between various programs by clicking on the icons at the top of the screen. For example, it you click on the netscape icon, the netscape window will come to the foreground and the math window will be behind it. To get the math window back in front, just click on the math box at the top of the screen.

  If you find the font in the math window too small or too large, you can change it by positioning the mouse inside the xterm window and holding down the CONTROL key while pushing the right mouse button. Select a different sized font from the menu by releasing the right mouse button at the appropriate menu item.

  You can run commands on math from the PUCC PC. For example, to run xmaple, type

  xmaple &

  (The ampersand "&" puts the xfig job in the "background" so that you can continue to type commands in the xterm window while xmaple is running.) The xmaple graphics windows will appear on the screen of your PUCC PC in a few seconds exactly as they would on a math machine console.

  To run matlab, you would type

  matlab

  without an ampersand at the end.

  HELPFUL HINT: Holding down the left and right mouse buttons at the same time on a PUCC PC simulates pushing the middle mouse button on a SUN mouse.

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