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<H2><A NAME="s7">7. Miscellaneous</A></H2>
<H2><A NAME="ss7.1">7.1 Supported Terminals</A>
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<P>I have been told that this procedures in this document work (more or less)
with the following terminals: <B>NCD 19r, NCD 19c, NCD19m?, NCD 15b, NCD MCX</B>
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<H2><A NAME="ss7.2">7.2 Reference</A>
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<P>Unix man pages:
bootpd(8), tftpd(8), bootptab(5), xdm(1x), xfs(1), fsinfo(1), xset(1),
inetd(8)
<P>Linux Ethernet HOWTO document,
Linux Net-3 (Networking) HOWTO document
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<P>NCDware System Administrator's Guide for UNIX Systems (print version)
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncd.com/pub/ncd/Archive/NCD-Articles/index.html">NCD Techtips Archive</A><P>Now available for download in the NCD Techtips Archive is the
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.ncd.com/pub/ncd/Archive/Documentation/NCDware/index.html">NCDware Reference Manual</A> which covers almost every X terminal
configuration issue in detail.
<P>The searchable
<A HREF="http://www.ncd.com/support/kbsearch/kbase.html">NCD knowledge base</A> addresses some frequently asked questions
as well as bug reports.
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<P>Note that the above links are subject to change. Since the first
version of this mini-HOWTO was published, the NCD web site has been
extensively reorganized.
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<H2><A NAME="ss7.3">7.3 Equipment used in the preparation of this document</A>
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<P>X terminal: NCD model NCD19r with 19 monochrome monitor 1280x1024 8M RAM
<P>X server software: NCDware V3.2.CV 19r_s
<P>Remote Host: IBM Cyrix 686 P150+ running Slackware
(Linux kernel version 2.0.31)
<P>Remote Host: IBM Cyrix M2 200 MMX running Red Hat 5.0
(Linux kernel version 2.0.32)
<P>Network Card: 10 base T Ethernet card (ne 2000 clone) and 8 port hub
<P>Font server version 2 release number 6300
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<H2><A NAME="ss7.4">7.4 Acknowledgments</A>
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<P>I would like to thank Michael de Lind van Wijngaarden, Jamal Hadi-Salim and
Dwight Hodge for assistance in the preparation of this document.
<H2><A NAME="ss7.5">7.5 Outstanding Issues</A>
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<LI>Is it possible or wise to start the font server using inetd?
</LI>
<LI>If the remote host running the font server is powered down but later
comes up again, with the font server active, the X terminal may fail to
retrieve its fonts. The font path entry has to be re-entered with the
console menu or xset. Why?
</LI>
<LI>Are the procedures for other models of X terminals roughly similar?
</LI>
<LI>What is the procedure to boot the X terminal using NFS (Network File
System) or RARP (Reverse Address Resolution Protocol)?
</LI>
<LI>The following messages appear in the X terminal Console. I am
suspicious that they come from xfree86 extensions to X which are not part
of the X terminal server. Can someone confirm or deny this?
<PRE>
%XSERVER-I-NEWCLIENT, host "localhost" connected with blank authorization
%XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "BIG-REQUESTS"
%XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "XKEYBOARD"
%XSERVER-W-NOEXTENSION, client attempted to use non-existent extension "XFree86-Misc"
</PRE>
</LI>
<LI>Could Linux be ported to an X terminal? This is almost a joke
question but Linux is already on some unlikely platforms.
</LI>
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<H2><A NAME="ss7.6">7.6 Feedback</A>
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<P>Please write to <CODE>ian</CODE> at <CODE>permedia.ca</CODE>
with any comments, questions, corrections, suggestions or contributions.
Many thanks to all who have written with feedback and additional information.
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