This distribution contains two programs, xrsh and xrlogin. Both are shell scripts. Xrsh is designed to allow you to start an X client on a remote machine with the window displayed on the current server's $DISPLAY. It has many options that give you the ability to propagate environment variables (including DISPLAY) to the remote system and works with various types of X server access control including xauth and xhost. In X11R4 and previous, xrsh was called "xon". There was a script in X11R5 by Keith Packard by that name which has no relation to the originally distributed xon script. Xrlogin opens a local xterm window and runs rlogin or telnet to connect to a remote machine. Starting with the X11R5 version, xrsh has many new features including a multitude of X access control methods, the ability to pass arbitrary environment variables to the remote host and the ability to start a client on a different screen than the current one. To install on your system, the usual thing is to do an "xmkmf" followed by a "make install". IMPORTANT: If you are running a System V variant, you may need to change the first line of both scripts from "#!/bin/sh" to ": ". James J. Dempsey jjd@bbn.com 4 October 1991 Updated for X11R6: 3 June 1994
