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Re: Workstation or X-Terminal ? [message #11694 is a reply to message #11684]

Fri, 08 May 1998 00:00

pit
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In article <3551FA7D.D236FEA6@fz-juelich.de>,
"R. Bauer" <r.bauer@fz-juelich.de> writes:

> How can I determine if a user uses a workstation or a X-Terminal for
> IDL ?

You could try to examine the environment variable DISPLAY
(a=getenv('DISPLAY')), a workstation should have it empty or something
like ":0" or ":0.0".

and *please* do not post HTML code!

Peter

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