Tru64 Installation on FreeAXP

John

Re patch kit - I've actually installed v5.1B (my original post was a typo) so I think I have the correct patch CD. So the message 'OSF.image file not found in patch kit ... exiting' is still there. I have an OSF-USER license as listed by lmf.

Thanks for the terminal emulator and languages info. Is there a free CDE/X11 terminal emulator which would work?

Paul

John

I've just discoverd MobaXTerm which has a free Home edition.

Of course, the next question is: how do I set up a X11 terminal to access Tru64 UNIX CDE?

I can open MobaXTerm and use Tru64 UNIX from a PuTTy session (but only while FreeAXP/UNIX is running.) I'm unsure how to launch a 'graphical'/CDE environmant.

Paul<hr>

A 'graphical' environment varies based on what you want to do.

I know nothing of Tru64.

In general, you wan to setup your X-11 client to tunnel through SSH to the target system. That is you issue an SSH command to run in the foreground or background to launch either xterms or a session manager.

You may need to setup at least one target system with that OS as a font server to the X-11 client. That is definitely needed for OpenVMS, so I would expect it to also be needed for Tru64. If you do not setup a font server, the substitutions may not be correct.

Once you have that working, then when you run a local display on Tru64, the GUI environment has two major components, a session manager, and a window manager.

You have the choice of launching a session manager or use a menu in your x-11 client as a session manager to launch inidual programs.

Generally your X-11 client will supply its own window manager. Using the CDE window manager may give you a more accurate look and feel, but it can be significantly slower than using the local window manager. Using the CDE window manager remotely also consumes more resources on the Tru64 system.

malmberg

Thank you for that info. I really need to find an Idiot's guide to X-servers/X-11 because the technology and termiinology is not something that I am familiar with.

Paul

I am afraid that I do not have such a guide as of yet.

There is a lot available on the wild wild web, primarily for Linux and Bsd.

My Xming system on Windows 8.1 will not use any saved configuration file, even the one created by its own GUI.

I switched to it because I could not get the Cygwin/X to work for some operation, I think it was specifying a font server. I later found out that the syntax had changed for the command that was not working.

The now current Cygwin/X has been intentionally brain damaged for "Security" reasons by the maintainer to prohibit it from accepting connections from the network, even localhost, which is required for SSH tunnelling. Contrary to the Cygwin X FAQ which documents this, you have to actually edit the xinit script to undo that. Setting the options the FAQ way will disable other required settings and there is no way to override this except editing the xinit file.