iexplorer on hpux 10.20

[Maurice van Hout]

Hello,

I have installed the iexplorer 5.0 on my system, nothing went wrong.
When I tried to start the explorer, he created $HOME/.microsoft directory.
But after that nothing happens. The command prompt appears. I tried it as user and root.

I can somebody tell me what kind of variables
has to be set ?

Thanks.

Marcel

[Brian M. Fisher]

Is your DISPLAY variable set to the machine you are displaying IE on?

I recommend you try Netscape, it is far less CPU intensive and as a bonus, a non Microsoft product!!!

Brian
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[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Marcel,

IE on HP-UX will run as an X Windows applications. Be sure to set the DISPLAY Environment variable.

In sh try the following:

DISPLAY=:0 ; export DISPLAY

In ksh try :

export DISPLAY=:0

In csh use:

setenv DISPLAY :0

The most important thing to remember is that you are defining where the X Windows operations are to take place. So you must define the IP Address or the DNS Name and then append the ':0' to the string in order for the display to work properly.

You'll also need an X Server running on the machine that you are connecting to the server with.

Hope that helps.

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Marcel,

IE on HP-UX will run as an X Windows applications. Be sure to set the DISPLAY Environment variable.

The most important thing to remember is that you are defining where the X Windows operations are to take place. So you must define the IP Address or the DNS Name and then append the :0 to the string in order for the display to work properly.

You'll also need an X Server running on the machine that you are connecting to the server with.

Hope that helps.

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

I apologize for the multiple posts, but I kept getting 404 Object not found errors whenever I submitted my answers. It would appear that there are yet a few more bugs to clean out of the ITRC.

[Marcel Boon]

Hello Brian,

The Display variable is already set, when I type the command 'set' I see the next variable: DISPLAY=workstation:0.0
this variable is set in my .dtprofile.
This system is a C3000 HP-UX 10.20 (ACE june 99) I already look at the microsoft page and there I found 'umask=022' as variable.
This also doesn't work.

What to do next.....

Marcel

[Brian M. Fisher]

Are you getting any errors when starting iexplorer? Try xhost + but if you are logged in on the local machine running this it should not make any difference. As for the umask=022 the proper way of setting a umask is:
umask 022
without the equal sign.
I have no other variables set to run IE5, I still suggest using Netscape;)

Brian
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[Marcel Boon]

Hello Brian,

It still doesn't work.
I'm going back to my beautiful Netscape.

I know one solution, Never install a microsoft produkt on a HP-UX machine !

Thanks for your attention.

[David DeMartini]

.. or simply never install an MS product.

Netscape has been 'doing' UNIX well for quite a few years, and every port I've seen runs native. If you want graphical Web, I've yet to see a better solution (on any platform).

[Peter Eisentraeger]

I had the same problem: installation of ie5 succeeded but after starting of iexplorer nothing happend and I saw again the prompt. I tried this several times. I installed as root or as user, changed some cde resources and at last I could start ie5. But dont ask me why. The DISPLAY varaible was not the fault.

My problem no is: how can I start JAVA in ie5?