decoding error message

[asha g]

When I type xclock- I get a small clock appearing outside of my terminal in which I typed xclock.
Asha 

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--- On Wed, 18/2/09, Przemek Klosowski <przemek at jazz.ncnr.nist.gov> wrote:

> From: Przemek Klosowski <przemek at jazz.ncnr.nist.gov>
> Subject: Re: decoding error message
> To: dend_15 at yahoo.com
> Date: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 9:17 PM
> OS is RedHat Enterprise Linus 4.0. 
>    Octave was downloaded - not sure from where.
> 
> oops, I was wrong then---forget what I said in my previous
> message.
> You are running in X11 mode, rather than the console (black
> screen/white text), right? What happens when you type
> 'xclock'
> at the command line in your shell window---do you get a new
> window
> with the clock?


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