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- From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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- Subject: [comp.windows.x.announce] Consortium Draft Standard Available For Public Review: PEXlib
- Followup-To: comp.windows.x.announce
- Date: 25 Jul 1992 09:39:27 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.windows.x.announce/Consortium-Draft-Standard-Available-For-Public-Review-PEXlib
-
- An MIT X Consortium draft standard defining an Xlib-level interface to the
- PEX protocol is now available for Public Review. PEXlib is intended to be
- the lowest-level interface to the PEX protocol, on which both higher-level
- toolkits (such as PHIGS) and applications can be built. PEXlib provides full
- access to the PEX protocol, including immediate mode graphics.
-
- The objective of this Public Review is to determine if the current draft is
- acceptable as a Consortium standard. Public Review can result in changes to
- the draft standard.
-
- Public Review of PEXlib is scheduled to end October 27, 1992. The X
- community is encouraged to review the draft and submit comments by
- electronic mail to:
- public-review@expo.lcs.mit.edu
- or by postal mail to:
- Bob Scheifler
- MIT X Consortium
- Laboratory for Computer Science
- 545 Techology Square
- Cambridge MA 02139
-
- Electronic mail is preferred.
- Comments sent to other addresses are not guaranteed to be considered.
-
- Commentors should take the review process seriously, and should:
- 1. Identify objectionable functionality and wording in the document.
- 2. Suggest specific alternative functionality and wording.
- and most importantly:
- 3. Provide a rationale for the suggested changes.
-
- Commentors should also carefully distinguish between:
- 1. Problems that they regard as intolerable and that must be corrected
- before the specification becomes a standard.
- 2. Aspects that they do not like but could live with for a few years
- until a future revision of the standard.
- 3. Additional functionality that they can live without in the current
- standard but would like to see in a future revision.
-
-
- The following compressed documents are available via anonymous ftp to
- export.lcs.mit.edu in the directory /pub/DOCS/PEXlib/
-
- PEXlib.doc.tar.Z troff source, tar format
- PEXlib.ps.tar.Z PostScript, tar format
-
-
- The source tar contains all macros and sources files for building the
- document, table of contents and index. The source tar also includes the
- complete header files.
-
- The PostScript tar includes two files: PEXlib.PS which is the main document
- and table of contents, and PEXlib.ndx.PS which is the index.
-
- The documents are also available in compressed, uuencoded form via the
- archive server at xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu. The following items are available,
- by sending a message with the Subject: line of "send docs <itemname>"
- and an empty message body:
-
- PEXlib.uu.1 uuencoded PEXlib.doc.tar.Z, in 4 parts
- PEXlib.uu.2
- PEXlib.uu.3
- PEXlib.uu.4
- PEXlib.ps.uu.1 uuencoded PEXlib.ps.tar.Z, in 8 parts
- PEXlib.ps.uu.2
- PEXlib.ps.uu.3
- PEXlib.ps.uu.4
- PEXlib.ps.uu.5
- PEXlib.ps.uu.6
- PEXlib.ps.uu.7
- PEXlib.ps.uu.8
-
- For example, use "send docs PEXlib.uu.1" to retrieve the first part of
- PEXlib.doc.tar.Z. Send a separate message for each part you want.
-
- Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting return
- addresses. If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response. If you
- happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like
- path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
- or
- path bar!foo!frotz
- in the body of your message, and the daemon will use it.
-
-