windows_host_ip_address:0.0 not a valid id on remote host

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 23 May 2001, claude wrote:

> Cygwin/XFree86 User's Guide at Displaying Remote Clients says:
> 
> 5. In your telnet session type, DISPLAY=windows_host_ip_address:0.0
> 6. In your telnet session type, export DISPLAY
> 
> This doesn't work. On an OpenBSD 2.8, bash, it will say:
> export: `192.168.1.8:0.0': not a valid identifier
> 
> Any ideas on how to make this work ?
Maybe doing
DISPLAY="windows_host_ip_address:0.0"
export DISPLAY

or 
export DISPLAY="windows_host_ip_address:0.0"

bye
    ago
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