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"Nyder" <nyder@nyder.ca> writes:

> Hi,
>
> What do you have to do to get X11 forwarding working for emacs on a Sun
> Solaris 8 box?
>
> Other then installing the package?

First, make sure a simple application like 'xterm' works via your
connection route (presumably ssh?).  If 'xterm' works but emacs
doesn't, then are your positive your emacs was compiled with support
for X?
-- 
Benjamin