Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 02:22:09PM -0400, Jim Nicholson wrote:
> > >From inside an xterm, I can type
> >
> > xterm -bg black -fg green -e telnet foo.org
>
> I can't believe this works. At least it doesn't for me and it
> shouldn't. You have to quote the command after -e. Otherwise
> xterm tries to interpret foo.org as a parameter, fails, prints
> an error message and exits. The proper command line is:
>
> xterm -bg black -fg green -e 'telnet foo.org'
Ah. Does Jim then have a telnet 'default connection' environment
variable set up in his normal command-line state that's passed to the
xterm if issued from there, but not when issued from fvwm?
That'd explain why it appears to work ...
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Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 04:29:11 BST