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From: [e-mail] (David B. Lewis)
Subject: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 3/4
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Last-modified: 1992/11/16


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Subject:  66)  What is the current state of the world in X terminals?

Jim Morton ([e-mail]) posts quarterly to comp.windows.x a list of
manufacturers and terminals; it includes pricing information.

Notable buyers-guide surveys include:
    - the September 1991 issue of Systems Intregration

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Subject:  67)  Where can I get an X server with a touchscreen or lightpen?

    Labtam ([phone], fax [phone]) offers a 19" Surface
Acoustic Wave touch-screen option on its Xengine terminals.
    Tektronix (1-800-225-5434) provides an X terminal with the Xtouch
touch-screen. This terminal may also be resold through Trident Systems
(703-273-1012).
    Metro Link (305-970-7353) supports the EloGraphics Serial Touch Screen
Controllers.

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Subject:  68)! Where can I get an X server on a PC (DOS or Unix)?

    MIT X11R5 already provides a server to many 386/486 *Unixes* with
support for many of the popular video graphics adapters; and for other
non-MSDOS PCs you can obtain a server from these sources:

    XFree86 (formerly X386 1.2E) is an enhanced version of X386 1.2, which
was distributed with X11R5; it includes many bug fixes, speed improvements, and
other enhancements. Source for version 1.1 [10/92] is on export.lcs.mit.edu in
pub/contrib, ftp.physics.su.oz.au in /X386, and ftp.win.tue.nl in /pub/X386. In
addition, binaries are on ftp.physics.su.oz.au, and ftp.win.tue.nl among other
systems. Info: [e-mail].
    Note: this package obsoletes Glenn Lai's Speedup patches for an
enhanced X11R5 server for 386 UNIXes with ET4000 boards (SpeedUp.tar.Z on
export).


    Metro Link Inc. (305-970-7353, [e-mail]; in Europe contact
ADNT, (33 1) 3956 5333) ships an implementation of X11R4 for the 386/486 Unix
market.

    SGCS offers X386 Version 1.3, based on Thomas Roell's X11R5 two-headed
server, in binary and source form. Information: 408-255-9665, [e-mail].

    ISC, SCO, UHC, and other well-known operating-system vendors typically
offer X servers.

    For MSDOS PCs:

Daniel J. McCoy ([e-mail]) has started posting monthly a
list of non-UNIX servers for PCs, Macs, and Amigas; it includes pricing
information. The current copy is kept on export in contrib as
XServers-NonUNIX.txt.Z.

An article on PC X servers appears in the March 2, 1992 Open Systems Today.

    Also of possible use:

    Net-I from Programit (212-809-1707) enables communication among
DOS, OS/2 and Unix machines and can be used to display PC sessions on your
Unix X display.


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Subject:  69)  Where can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS?

    eXodus from White Pine Software (603-886-9050) runs on any Mac with
at least 1MB of memory and runs the X server within a standard Macintosh
window.  Version 3.0 [6/91] supports intermixing of X and Mac windows and
the ADSP protocol. The version supports the SHAPE extension and includes
DECwindows support.

    Apple's MacX runs on MacPlus or newer machines with >= 2MB of memory
and system software 6.0.4 or later. Version 1.1 is fully X11R4-based.  It
supports full ICCCM-compatible cut and paste of text AND graphics between the
Macintosh and X11 worlds, the SHAPE extension (including SHAPEd windows on the
Macintosh desktop), an optional built-in ICCCM-compliant window manager, X11R4
fonts and colors, a built-in BDF font compiler, and built-in standard
colormaps. Upgrades to MacX are available by ftp from aux.support.apple.com.
Info: 408-996-1010.
    [Note: MacX is also the name of a vax-mac xmodem transfer utility.]

    Also:

    Liken (1-800-245-UNIX or [e-mail]) software enables monochrome
68000 Mac applications to run on a SPARC system running X.
    Xport (1-800-245-UNIX (415-572-0200) or [e-mail]) enables Mac
applications to display on an X-based workstation by turning the Mac into an X
client.
    Intercon has a product called Planet-X which enables Mac applications
to display on an X server.

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Subject:  70)  Where can I get X for the Amiga?

    The new Amiga 3000 machines offer an X server and OPEN LOOK tools and
libraries on a full SVR4 implementation.

        GfxBase, Inc. provides "X11 R4.1" for the AmigaDos computer; it
contains X11R4 clients, fonts, etc., and a Release 4 color server. An optional
programmer's toolkit includes the header files, libraries, and sample programs.
Info from GfxBase, 408-262-1469. [Dale Luck
(uunet!{cbmvax|pyramid}!boing!dale); 2/91]

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Subject:  71)  Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation?

    The R5 server should be among the fastest available for most machines.

    International Quest Corporation (408-988-8289) has an optimized R4
server for Sun3/4 under SunOS 4.0.

    Unipalm have R4 Servers for Sun3 and Sparc platforms. These are
optimised to use graphics hardware and will run with Sunview. Information:
[phone] or [e-mail].

    Xgraph's Xtool (408-492-9031) is an X server implemented in SunView
which boasts impressive results on Sun 3 and SPARC systems. [6/90]

Several companies are making hardware accellerator boards:

    Dupont Pixel Systems (302-992-6911), for Sun.

    Megatek's (619-455-5590) X-cellerator board for the Sun 3 and Sun 4 is
based on the TI 34020; the company claims performance improvements of 5x to
10x over the sample X11R3 server.

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Subject:  72)  Where can I get a server for my high-end Sun graphics board?

        Takahashi Naoto (Electrotechnical Laboratory, [e-mail]) has
modified the MIT X11R5 server to support the Sun CG8, CG9, and CG12 boards.
The files are on export in contrib/Xsun24-3.[01].tar.Z.  Note that both files
are necessary to build Xsun24-3.1.

    The JPL R5 Xsun Multi-screen server is a general purpose replacement
for the MIT server/ddx/sun layer; it provides for the screen to be split among
several monitors and implements several other features above the MIT
implementation. Available on export.lcs.mit.edu in the file
contrib/R5.Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z. [Kaleb Keithley, [e-mail],
12/91; the file was updated 28 Sep 92.]

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Subject:  73)  Where can I get an "X terminal" server for my low-end Sun 3/50?

    Seth Robertson ([e-mail]) has written Xkernel; the current
version [1.4 as of 8/91, 2.0 expected RSN] is on sol.ctr.columbia.edu
[128.59.64.40] in /pub/Xkernel.gamma. It turns a Sun 3/50 into a pseudo- X
terminal; most of the overhead of the operating system is side-stepped, so it
is fairly fast and needs little disk space.
    A similar approach is to run the regular X server by making /etc/init
a shell script which does the minimal setup and then invokes Xsun, like this
example script from [e-mail]:

#! /bin/sh
exec >/dev/console 2>&1
/etc/fsck -p /dev/nd0
case $? in
     0)    ;;
     4)    /etc/reboot -q -n
         ;;
     8)    echo ND fsck failed - get help
         /etc/halt
         ;;
     12)    echo Interrupted
         /etc/reboot
         ;;
     *)    echo Unknown error in reboot fsck - get help
         /etc/halt
         ;;
esac
/bin/dd if=/tmp-fs of=/dev/nd2 bs=512 count=128 >/dev/null 2>&1
/etc/mount /dev/nd2 /tmp
/etc/ifconfig le0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 132.206.41.255
/etc/mount -o ro apollo:/u2/x11/lib /local/lib/X11
/etc/route add default 132.206.41.1 1 >/dev/null
set `/etc/ifconfig le0`
exec /Xsun -once -multidisp -mux -query `(sh -vn </local/lib/X11/xdm-servers/$2 2>&1)`

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Subject:  74)! What terminal emulators other than xterm are available?

    PCS has rewritten xterm from scratch using a multi-widget approach that
can be used by applications. A version is on the R5 contrib tape and on
export in contrib/emu.tar.Z [10/91].  More information is available from
[e-mail].

    The Color Terminal Widget provides ANSI-terminal emulation compatible
with the VTx00 series; a version is on export in contrib/CTW-1.1.tar.Z. A
Motif version is on ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in pub/Term-1.0.tar.Z.

    kterm 4.1.2 is an X11R4-based vt100/vt102 (and Tektronix 4014) terminal
emulator that supports display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text (in VT
mode).  Also supported are: ANSI color sequences, multi-byte word selection,
limited Compound Text support, and tab and newline preservation in selections.
kterm 4.1.2 is also available from these anonymous ftp sites:
    clr.nmsu.edu:pub/misc/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z  [128.123.1.14]
    export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z  [18.24.0.12]
    kum.kaist.ac.kr:pub/unix/Xstuffs/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z  [137.68.1.65]
[courtesy of Mark Leisher <[e-mail]> ]
    kterm-5.1.0.tar.Z is now on export [7/92].

    mterm, by [e-mail], is an X terminal emulator
which includes ANSI X3.64 and DEC emulation modes.  mterm can be had by ftp to
larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1), in X/mterm.src/mterm.ball-o-wax.

    Cxterm is a Chinese xterm, which supports both GB2312-1980 and the
so-called Big-5 encoding.  Hanzi input conversion mechanism is builtin in
cxterm.  Most input methods are stored in external files that are loaded at run
time.  Users can redefine any existing input methods or create their own ones.
The X11R5 cxterm is the rewritten of cxterm (version 11.5.1) based on X11R5
xterm; it is in the R5 contrib software.  [thanks to Zhou Ning
<[e-mail]> and Steinar Bang <uunet!idt.unit.no!steinarb>.]

    XVT is available on export's contrib in xvt-1.0.tar.Z and
xvt-1.0.README. It is designed to offer xterm's functionality with lower swap
space and may be of particular use on systems driving many X terminals.

    x3270 is in X11R5 contrib/.

Also:
    IBM sells a 3270 emulator for the RS/6000 (part #5765-011); it's based
on Motif.

    Century Software (801-268-3088) sells a VT220 terminal emulator for X.
VT102, Wyse 50 and SCO Color Console emulation are also available.

    Grafpoint's TGRAF-X provides emulation of Tektronix 4107, 4125, and
42xx graphics terminals; it's available for most major platforms. Information
(inc. free demo copies): 800-426-2230; Fax. [phone]; uunet!grafpnt!sales.

    IXI's X.deskterm, a package for integrating character-based
applications into an X environment, includes a number of terminal-emulation
modules. Information: [phone]. [5/90]

    Pericom produces Teem-X, a set of several emulation packages for a
number of Tek, DEC, Westward, and Data General terminals. The software runs on
Sun 3, Sun 4, Apollo, DEC, ISC, IBM/AIX. Information: US: 609-895-0404,
UK: [phone]. [5/90]

    SCO's SCOterm ([e-mail]), part of its Open Desktop environment, is
a Motif-compliant SCO ANSI color console emulator.

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Subject:  75)  Where can I get an X-based editor or word-processor?

    You can ftp a version of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable,
self-documenting, real-time display editor, including X11 support, from
prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:/pub/gnu/emacs-18.58.tar.Z or
informatik.tu-muenchen.de:/pub/GNU/emacs/emacs-18.58.tar.Z.

    Epoch is a modified version of Gnu Emacs with additional facilities
useful in an X environment. Current sources are on cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1)
in ~ftp/pub/epoch-files/epoch; the current [3/92] version is 4.0.
[In Europe, try unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de].  There are two
subdirectories:  epoch contains the epoch source, and gwm contains the source
to the programmable window manager GWM, with which epoch works well.]
You can get on the Epoch mailing list by sending a request to
[e-mail].

    The Andrew system on the X11 contrib tapes has been described as one of
the best word-processing packages available. It supports word processing with
multi-media embedded objects: rasters, tables/spread sheets, drawings, style
editor, application builder, embedded programming language, &c. Release 5.1
became available 2 June 92.  [Fred Hansen ([e-mail])]
    You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this
software; try "finger [e-mail]" for help.

    The InterViews 3.0.1 C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG editor called Doc;
it saves and loads files in a LaTeX-*like* format (not quite LaTeX).  The
package can also import idraw-PostScript drawings.

    A simple editor aXe (by [e-mail]) is available on
export as aXe-3.1.tar.Z [9/92]. It is based around the Xaw Text widget.

    TED is a simple Motif-based text editor; it is a wrapper around the
Motif text widget which offers search/replace, paragraph formatting, and
navigation features. TED is available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) as
/pub/bill.tar.Z; here are also executables there.

    Point, by [e-mail] (Charlie Crowley), is Tcl/Tk-based
and offers dyanimic configuration and programming in the Tcl macro language.
The editor is available from unmvax.cs.unm.edu (129.24.16.1) as
pub/Point/point1.1-tar.Z.

Also:

    Elan Computer Group (Mountain View, CA; 415-964-2200) has announced the
Avalon Publisher 2.0, an X11/OPEN LOOK WYSIWYG electronic publishing system.

    FrameMaker and FrameWriter are available as X-based binary products for
several machines. Frame is at 800-843-7263 (CA: 408-433-3311).

    WX2 (formerly InDepthEdit) is available from Non Standard Logics
([phone]; [e-mail]).

    Buzzwords International Inc. has an editor called 'Professional Edit'
that runs under X/Motif for various platforms.  Info: [phone].

    DECwrite is available from DEC for some DEC hardware and SunWrite is
available from Sun.

    IslandWrite will soon be available from Island Graphics (415-491-1000)
([e-mail]) for some HP & Apollo platforms.

    Interleaf is currently available from Interleaf (800-241-7700,
MA: 617-577-9800) on all Sun and DEC platforms; others are under development.

    The Aster*x office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
MA: 508-870-0300) include a multi-font WYSIWG document composer; for several
systems.

    ArborText, Inc. provides an X11 version of its Electronic Publishing
program called "The Publisher". The Publisher is available on Sun, HP and
Apollo workstations. Contact Arbortext at 313-996-3566. [5/90]

    Iris Computing Laboratories offers the "ie" editor. Info:
[phone] or [e-mail].

    BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a menu-driven word
processor with multiple fonts and style sheets.  It supports X on
multiple platforms. (617-873-5000 or [e-mail]) [11/90]

    The powerful "sam" editor by Rob Pike is split into a host portion and
a front-end graphics portion, which now has an X implementation. Sam is
available from the AT&T Toolchest; additional X support is available from Doug
Gwyn ([e-mail]). [1/91]

    Innovative Solutions (505-883-4252; or Brian Zimbelman,
is![e-mail]) publishes the user-configurable Motif-based Xamine
editor.

    Qualix offers a product. Information: [e-mail] or 800-245-UNIX
(415-572-0200).

    Typex is a Motif-based editor available for several systems.
Information: Amcad Research, 408-867-5705, fax -6209.

    WordPerfect offers an X-based version of WordPerfect 5.1 for several
workstations. Information: 801-222-5300 or 800-451-5151.

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Subject:  76)! Where can I get an X-based mailer?

    xmh, an X interface to mh, is distributed with the X11 release.

    Xmail is an X-based window interface to Berkeley-style mail handlers;
it is styled primarily after the Sunview mailtool application and builds on
most Unix systems. The current release [1/92] is 1.4, available in the MIT
X11R5 contrib tape and from export and uunet. Info: Jeff Markham,
[e-mail].

    MMH (My Mail Handler), a motif interface to the MH mail handler, is
available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) in pub/bill.tar.Z; it is bundled
with the TED editor, which it uses for composing messages. Motif 1.1 is
required; if you don't have it, look for DEC and SPARC executables in the same
place.  Information and problems to: Erik Scott, [e-mail]. [1/92]

    The Andrew Toolkit supports the Andrew Message System; it is available
from export and many other X archives and from emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu
(128.2.30.62), or send email to [e-mail]. Release 5.1 became
available 2 June 92.
    You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this
software; try "finger [e-mail]" for help.

    XMailTool is an Xaw-based interface to a BSD-style mail reader; version
2.0 was released 9/92. Information: Bob Kierski, [e-mail] or 612-683-5874.

    Cem is a Motif-based mailer using standard mailbox formats; it is on
nelson.tx.ncsu.edu in pub/Cem. Information: Sam Moore ([e-mail]).

Also:

        Alfalfa Software offers Poste, a UNIX-based mailer that has Motif- and
command-based interfaces.  It includes support for multimedia enclosures, and
supports both the Internet and X.400 mail standards.  Information:
[e-mail], [phone].

    Z-Code Software offers Z-Mail for most Unix systems; binaries support
both tty and Motif interfaces. The mailer includes a csh-like scripting
language for customizing and extending mail capabilities.  Information:
[e-mail], [phone].

    Several vendors' systems include X-based mailers. DEC offers dxmail;
Sun offers an X-based mailtool; SCO ([e-mail]) includes SCOmail in its Open
Desktop product.

Several integrated office-productivity tools include mailers:

    The Aster*x office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
MA: 508-870-0300) include a mailer.

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Subject:  77)! Where can I get an X-based paint/draw program?

    xpic is an object-oriented drawing program. It supports multiple font
styles and sizes and variable line widths; there are no rotations or zooms.
xpic is quite suitable as an interactive front-end to pic, though the
xpic-format produced can be converted into PostScript. (The latest version is
on the R4 contrib tape in clients/xpic.)

    xfig (by Brian V. Smith ([e-mail])) is an object-oriented
drawing program supporting compound objects.  The xfig format can be converted
to PostScript or other formats. Recent versions are on the R5 contrib tape or
on export in /contrib/R5fixes (version 2.1.5 [11/92]).

        idraw supports numerous fonts and various line styles and arbitrary
rotations. It supports zoom and scroll and color draws and fills. The file
format is a PostScript dialect. It can import TIFF files. Distributed as a part
of the InterViews C++ toolkit (current release 3.0.1, on the X11R5 contrib/
tapes or from interviews.stanford.edu) .

    An alpha of Robert Forsman's ([e-mail]) xscribble,
an 8-bit paint program for X, is now on ftp.cis.ufl.edu in pub/empire/. [7/92]

    xpaint is available from ftp.ee.lbl.gov as xpaint.tar.Z.
    A rewrite, Xpaint 2.0, by David Koblas ([e-mail]) was posted as
a beta to alt.sources in early July 1992; a second beta is on export. xpaint
is a bitmap/pixmap editing tool.

    A new OpenWindows PostScript-based graphical editor named 'ice' is now
[2/91] available for anonymous ftp from Internet host lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
(129.236.10.30).  ice (Image Composition Environment) is an imaging tool that
allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of PostScript
annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging routines and NeWS PostScript
rasterizing. (It may require OpenWindows and Sun C++ 2.0.)

    tgif by William Cheng ([e-mail]) is available from most
uucp sites and also from export and from cs.ucla.edu. It is frequently updated;
version 2.12-patch13 was released 11/92.

    The "pixmap" program (info: [e-mail]) for creating pixmaps is
on the R5 contrib tape; it resembles the bitmap client. Version 2.1 is now
available. [11/92]

    Although MetaCard is not generally classified as a paint program, a
full 24-bit color image editor is built into the program, which can be used for
light image editing and for producing color icons ([e-mail]). MetaCard
is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or
128.138.213.21.

Also:

    dxpaint is a bitmap-oriented drawing program most like MacPaint; it's
good for use by artists but commonly held to be bad for drawing figures or
drafting. dxpaint is part of DEC's Ultrix release.

    FrameMaker has some draw capabilities. [4/90]

    BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and
paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms.
(617-873-5000 or [e-mail]). [11/90]

    Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999

    IslandGraphics offers IslandDraw, IslandPaint, IslandPresent.
Info: 415-491-1000.

    Corel Draw, 613-728-8200; ported to X by Prior Data Sciences
800-267-2626

    Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960

    Ficor AutoGraph, 513-771-4466

Several integrated office-productivity tools include draw/paint capabilities:

    The Aster*x office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX,
MA: 508-870-0300) include draw/paint capabilities.

[thanks in part to Stephen J. Byers ([e-mail])]

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Subject:  78)  Where can I get an X-based plotting program?

These usually are available from uucp sites such as uunet or other sites as
marked; please consult the archie server to find more recent versions.

 gnuplot    X (xplot), PostScript and a bunch of other drivers.
    export.lcs.mit.edu [and elsewhere]:contrib/gnuplot3.1.tar.Z

 gl_plot    X output only [?]
    comp.sources.unix/volume18

 graph+
    yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au:/pub/graph+.tar.Z [131.170.24.42]
    comp.sources.unix/volume8

 pdraw,drawplot        2D and 3D X,PS
    scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/3dplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
    scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/contour.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
    scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/drawplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1]
    uunet:~ftp/contrib/drawplot.tar.Z

 xgraph        plot, zoom. Outputs PS or HPGL.
    shambhala.berkeley.edu:/pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.32.132.54]
    sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de:X11/contrib/xgraph-11.tar.Z [132.230.1.1]
    nisc.jvnc.net:pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.121.50.7]
    comp.sources.x/volume3
    or many other sites

 ACE/gr (formerly xvgr and xmgr) XY plotting tools
    ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34]
    XView version: /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xvgr-2.09.tar.Z
    Motif version: /CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-2.09.tar.Z

 XGobi        An interactive dynamic scatter-plotting tool from Bellcore
    lib.stat.cmu.edu: general/xgobi* [log in as statlib with your email
        as the password]
    Information from: Debby Swayne, [e-mail].

 Robot        a scientific XView-based graph plotting and data analysis tool
    ftp.astro.psu.edu:pub/astrod/robotx0.44.tar.Z [128.118.147.28]


[2/91. Thanks in part to: [e-mail] (Ed Vielmetti); [e-mail]
(Geoffrey Leach); Paul A. Scowen ([e-mail]); [e-mail]
(Mike Black)]

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Subject:  79)  Where can I get an X-based spreadsheet?

A version of "sc" for X and which supports Lotus files is available from
vernam.cs.uwm.edu in xspread1.0.tar.Z. It also includes graphing functions.
Information: [e-mail].

Also:

Several of the below are part of integrated office-productivity tools which may
also include word-processing, email, conferencing, image processing, and
drawing/painting, among other features.

Vendor                        Product    Contact Information
------                        -------    -------------------
Access Technology             20/20      508-655-9191
Informix                      WingZ      800-331-1763
Quality Software Products     Q-Calc/eXclaim    800-628-3999 (CA:213-410-0303)
Unipress                      Q-Calc     201-985-8000
Uniplex                       Uniplex    214-717-0068, 800-356-8063
Digital                  DECdecision   1-800-DIGITAL
Applix                  Aster*x     508-870-0300, 1-800-8APPLIX.
AIS                  XESS     919-942-7801, [e-mail]
BBN Software Products         BBN/Slate  617-873-5000 [e-mail]
Elsid Software Systems          Ripcam     613-228-9468

SAS by the SAS Institute  now has a spreadsheet module; the X version is
available on the current popular RISC platforms.

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Subject:  80)! Where can I get X-based project-management software?

Vendor                            Product        Contact Information
------                -------        -------------------
Productivity Solutions        Ultra Planner    617-237-1600
Quality Software Products     MasterPlan Version, 310-410-0303 [e-mail]
Digital Tools, Inc.        AutoPLAN    408-366-6920, 800-755-0065
NASA                COMPASS        404-542-3265,
                        [e-mail]
GEC-Marconi Software Systems    GECOMO Plus    703-648-1551
GEC-Marconi Software Systems    SIZE Plus    703-648-1551
TEI, Inc            VUE        408-985-7100
Mantix                Cascade        703-506-8833
Advanced Management Solutions    Schedule Publisher    800-397-6829
Auburn University        ??        ??

[thanks to Pete Phillips ([e-mail]); 7/92]
[thanks to Atul Chhabra ([e-mail]); 10/92]

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Subject:  81)! Where can I get an X-based PostScript previewer?

    Ghostscript is distributed by the Free Software Foundation
(617-876-3296) and includes a PostScript interpreter and a library of graphics
primitives. Version 2.5.2 is now available; the major site is prep.ai.mit.edu.
[11/92]

    GSPreview (by the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at
Canterbury) is an X user interface (WCL-based) to the Ghostscript 2.4[.1]
interpreter [5/92].  The source is available for anonymous ftp from
export.lcs.mit.edu as gspreview.2.0.tar.Z.

    Ghostview (by Tim Theisen, [e-mail]) is full-function user
interface for GhostScript. Check ftp.cs.wisc.edu or prep.ai.mit.edu for
/pub/ghostview-1.4.tar.Z [11/92]. There are also several executables available
on ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe for various architectures.

Also:

    ScriptWorks is Harlequin's software package for previewing and printing
PostScript(R) descriptions of text and graphics images; previewers for X are
available. For information call [phone] or send email to
[e-mail].

    Image Network's Xps supports the full PostScript language and renders
in color, grayscale, or monochrome. Fonts displayed are anti-aliased. Info:
Image Network, [phone].

    Digital's dxpsview runs on UWS 2.1 and 2.2.

    Sun's pageview runs with the X11/NeWS server.

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Subject:  82)  Where can I get an X-based GKS package?

    The latest freely-available XGKS can be obtained from
[e-mail]; this is a 2c implementation derived from the
X11R4 contrib XGKS from IBM and the University of Illinois. The release
is on unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] as pub/xgks.tar.Z. [12/90]
    In addition, Grafpak-GKS is available from Advanced Technology Center
(714-583-9119).
    GKSUL is available from [e-mail] (ULowell CS department). It is
a 2b implementation which includes drivers for a variety of devices. It can be
passed an X window ID to use. The package includes both C and Fortran bindings.

[11/90; from [e-mail] and from [e-mail]]

    An XgksWidget is produced by Neil Bowers ([e-mail];
[e-mail]); the latest [10/91] conforms with the new version of
XGKS (2.4). It is available on export in contrib/xgks-widget.tar.Z.

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Subject:  83)! Where can I get an X-based PEX package?

    The first official release of PEX is with X11R5.

    The final PEX 5.1 Protocol specification is now available via anonymous
ftp to export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12), in the directory /pub/DOCS/PEX/.
Changes made from the Public Review draft are listed in the file "5.1P_changes"
in that directory. [9/92]

    The final PEXlib 5.1 document is on export in pub/DOCS/PEXlib. [11/92]

    There is now available from the University of Illinois an
implementation of the PEX 4.0 specification called UIPEX. It contains a "near-
complete" implementation of PHiGS and PHiGS PLUS. The file
pub/uipex/uipex.tar.Z is on a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1); the porting platform
was an RT running 4.3.  Questions and comments can to go [e-mail].

    In addition, the PEXt toolkit by Rich Thomson ([e-mail]) is
available on export as PEXt.tar.Z; it includes a PEX widget making it easier to
include PEX in Xt-based programs.

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Subject:  84)  Where can I get an X-based TeX or DVI previewer?

    The xtex previewer for TeX files is available from a number of archive
sites, including uunet; the current version is usually on ftp.cs.colorado.edu
(128.138.204.31) in SeeTeX-2.18.5.tar.Z; pre-converted fonts are also on that
machine. The distribution all includes "mftobdf" which converts PK, GF, and PXL
fonts to BDF format, where they can then be compiled for use by your local X
server.
    The xdvi dvi-previewer is fairly comprehensive and easy to use. It is
also available from a number of sites, including uunet and export.lcs.mit.edu.

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Subject:  85)! Where can I get an X-based troff previewer?

    X11R4 has two previewers for device-independent troff: the supported
client xditview, and the contributed-but-well-maintained xtroff. An earlier
version of xtroff also appeared on the R3 contributed source. xditview is also
in the R5 distribution.
    In addition, the xman client can be used to preview troff documents
which use the -man macros (i.e. man pages).
    If psroff is used its output can be viewed with a PostScript previewer.

In addition:

    xproof, an X previewer for ditroff has been contributed by Marvin
Solomon ([e-mail]); version 3.5 is available on export in
contrib/xproof*.     [8/90]

    Elan Computer Group (CA: 415-964-2200) produces eroff, a modified
troff implementation, and Elan/Express, an X11 eroff previewer.

    SoftQuad (416-963-8337; USA only 800-387-2777, [e-mail] or
[e-mail]) offers SoftQuad Publishing Software, including a substantially-
rewritten troff formatter, a better intermediate language with backwards
compatibility, and an X11[R3,R4] previewer. (This is the package adopted by
AT&T's own MIS department, and used in and re-sold by many parts of AT&T).
[information from Ian Darwin, SoftQuad ([e-mail]) 3/90]

    Image Network (1-800-TOXROFF; CA: 415-967-0542) offers the Xroff
package, which includes a fine modified troff implementation and a set of
X11-based page previewers. (This is the package OEM'ed by several hardware
vendors.)

[mostly courtesy [e-mail] (Mark Moraes)] [2/90]

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Subject:  86)  Where can I get a WYSIWYG interface builder?

    A new release of the DIRT interface builder by Richard Hesketh works
with X11R5 and includes some support for the Motif widget set. From the README:
  This builder allows the interactive creation and rapid prototyping of X user
  interfaces using the X Toolkit and a number of Widget Sets.  Dirt generates
  "Wc - Widget Creation" resource files and this distribution also includes the
  Widget Creation Library (version 1.06, with the exception of the demos and
  Mri/Ari source code) with the kind permission of its author David E. Smyth.
Check dirt.README, dirt.A2.0.tar.Z, and dirt.PS.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib.

    The InterViews 3.0.1 C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG interface builder
called ibuild. ibuild generates code for an InterViews application complete
with Imakefile and an X-resource file. Documentation is /pub/papers/ibuild.ps
on interviews.stanford.edu (36.22.0.175).
    Quest Windows's (408-496-1900) ObjectViews C++ package includes an
interactive building tool.

    Druid (Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development) runs on SPARC
machines using OSF/Motif 1.0; it is intended eventually to be a full UIMS but
apparently now has only support for creating the presentation components, for
which it generates C/UIL code. Info: Singh G, Kok CH, Ngan TY, "Druid: A System
for Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development". Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symp
on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'90). ACM, NY, 1990, pp:167-177.

    The BYO interface builder is implemented in tcl.

Also:
    In addition, these commercial products (unsorted) are available in
final or prerelease form [the * following the product name indicates that the
product is known to allow the designer to specify for each widget whether a
particular resource is hard-coded or written to an application defaults file,
for at least one form of output]. Some are much more than user-interface tools;
some are full user interface management systems:

Product Name        Look/Feel    Code Output        Vendor
HP Interface        Motif 1.1    C(Xm)            HP/Visual Edge
 Architect/ UIMX
OPEN LOOK Express    OPEN LOOK    C(Xol+ helper lib)    AT&T/Visual Edge
UIMX 2.0 *        Motif 1.1    C(Xm + helper code)    Visual Edge
                                514-332-6430
                                & distributors
VUIT 2.0        Motif 1.1    C/UIL[r/w]        DEC
                                (1-800-DIGITAL)
X-Designer 1.1 *    Motif 1.1    C(Xm); C/UIL        Imperial
                                Software
                                Technology, Ltd
                                ([phone])
                                [e-mail]
XFaceMaker2 (XFM2) *     Motif 1.0    C;C/script (C-like procedural
                    language);C/UIL
                                 NSL
                            (33 1 43 36 77 50)
                            [e-mail]
Builder Xcessory 2.0 *    Motif 1.1    C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w]    ICS
                                (617-621-0060)
                                [e-mail]
XBUILD 1.1 *        Motif 1.0    C(Xm); C/UIL         Nixdorf
                                (617-864-0066)
                            [e-mail]
iXBUILD            Motif 1.1    C(Xm); C/UIL        iXOS Software
                                [e-mail]
                                089/461005-69
TeleUSE 1.1        Motif 1.1    PCD (like UIL);C + helper lib
                                Telesoft
                                (619-457-2700)
ezX 3.2            Motif 1.1    C(Xm +helper lib);C/UIL;Ada
                                Sunrise
                                (401-847-7868)
                                [e-mail]
Snapix            Motif        C/Xm            ADNT
                                [phone]
OpenWindows Developers    OPEN LOOK     GIL [-> C/XView]    Sun
Guide 3.0                GIL [-> C++/XView]
                    GIL [-> C/OLIT]
                    GIL [-> C/PostScript for TNT]
ExoCode/SXM        Motif        C(Xm)            Expert Object
ExoCode/Plus        OPEN LOOK    XView            708-676-5555
TAE+            Xw;Motif    C(Xw,Xm); C/TCL (TAE Control Language,
                    like UIL[needs helper library]);
                    VAX Fortran; Ada
                                Nasa Goddard
                                [phone]
MOB, XSculptor            Motif; OpenLook    C/Xm,UIL; C/Xol        Kovi
                                408-982-3840
PSM            PM, MSW 3.0,    C/UIL            Lancorp
            Motif 1.1.2,Mac                Pty Ltd.
                                [phone]
                                Fax:  [phone]
                                (Australia)
MOTIFATION        Motif 1.0|1.1.2    C(Xm)            AKA EDV
                            +49 (0) 234/33397-0
                            +49 (0) 234/33397-40 fax
UIB            Open Look/Motif    C++(OI)            ParcPlace
                                [phone]

Look for magazine reviews for more complete comparisons of meta-file formats,
documentation, real ease-of-use, etc; Unix World and Unix Review often carry
articles.

    In addition, Neuron Data (1 415 321-4488) makes Open Interface, a
window-system-independent object toolkit which supports interfaces which are
or resemble (supersets of) Mac, Windows, and Motif and Open Look; the package
includes an interface builder.

       In addition, the GRAMMI builder supports the development of Ada/X
applications using its own set of objects which are planned to have a Motif
look.  GRAMMI is written in Ada and generates Ada specs and stub bodies.
(1-800-GRAMMI-1).

    In addition, these non-WYSIWYG but related products may help for goals
of rapid prototyping of the application interface:

    WCL: the Widget Creation Library. Basically describes the widget
hierarchy and actions in a resources file; available from fine archive servers
everywhere, including devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.1.143) in pub/. Wcl provides
a very thin layer over Xt without any internal tweaking. 2.03 became available
11/92.
    WINTERP: an Xlisp-based Motif toolkit allows for interpretive
programming. The copy on the R4 tape is outdated; get a copy off export or
email to [e-mail].
    The Serpent UIMS permits the building of user-interfaces without
specific knowledge of coding but with an understanding of attributes being set
on a particular [Motif] widget.  Beta Release 1.2 is available from
ftp.sei.cmu.edu (128.237.1.13) and can be found in /pub/serpent.  Serpent is
also available on export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.11) in /contrib/serpent. Email
questions can go to [e-mail]. A commercial version of Serpent is
available as "Agora" from ASET, 221 Woodhaven Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228.
    Garnet is a Common Lisp-based GUI toolkit. Information is available
from [e-mail].
    MetaCard is a hypertext/Rapid Application Development environment
similar to Apple/Claris Corporation's HyperCard ([e-mail]). MetaCard
is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or
128.138.213.21.

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Subject:  87)  Where can I find X tools callable from shell scripts?
I want to have a shell script pop up menus and yes/no dialog boxes if the user
is running X.

    Several tools in the R3 contrib/ area were developed to satisfy these
needs: yorn pops up a yes/no box, xmessage displays a string, etc. There are
several versions of these tools; few, if any, have made it to the R4 contrib/
area, though they may still be available on various archive sites.
    In addition, Richard Hesketh ([e-mail]) has posted the xmenu
package to comp.sources.x ("v08i008: xmenu") for 1-of-n choices.  [7/90]
    Two versions of XPrompt have been posted to comp.sources.x, the latter
being an unauthorized rewrite. [R. Forsman ([e-mail]), 1/91]
    There is a version of XMenu available from comp.sources.x; it is
being worked on and will likely be re-released.
    xp-1.1.tar.Z, xpick-1.0.tar.Z and xzap-1.0.tar.Z on export's contrib/
are tools by [e-mail] which act as X versions of the
simple display and choice-making tools in K&P. [4/92]

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Subject:  88)! Where can I get an X-based debugger?

    xdbx, an X interface to the dbx debugger, is available via ftp from
export. The current [1/91] version is 2.1 patchlevel 2.
    An X interface to gdb called xxgdb is more like xdbx 2.1.2. It is part
of comp.sources.x volume 11 [2/91].
    mxgdb is a Motif interface to gdb by Jim Tsillas
([e-mail]); version 1.1.3 was posted to alt.sources 2/92.
Previous versions are on export.
    UPS is a source-level debugger which runs under the X11 and SunView
window systems on Sun and DEC platforms. It is available from export
(18.24.0.11) as contrib/ups-2.45.tar.Z and unix.hensa.ac.uk (129.12.21.7) in
/pub/misc/unix/ups (or try mail to [e-mail]). [10/92]

Also:
    MIPS produces a highly-customizable (WCL-based) Visual Debugger.
    You should be able to use Sun's dbxtool with its X11/NeWS server.
    The CodeCenter (617-498-3000) source-level debugger, available on most
major platforms, includes an X-based interface.
    AT&T offers the eXamine Graphical Interface, an X11 interface to dbx
and C++ dbx for Sun3 and Sun4 and sdb and sdb++ for 386 and 3B2 platforms. Call
1-508-960-1997 or contact [e-mail] for more information.
        Solbourne ([phone]) offers PDB, its X-based debugger for C, C++
and Fortran.  PDB uses the OI toolkit and runs in either Open Look or Motif
mode.
    SCO ([e-mail]) offers dbXtra as part of several development
systems.

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Subject:  89)  How can I "tee" an X program identically to several displays?

    There are several protocol multiplexer tools which provide for the
simultaneous display of X clients on any number of machines.
    XMX (an X Protocol Multiplexor) is available from wilma.cs.brown.edu
(128.148.31.66) as pub/xmx.tar.Z It works independently of the server and does
not affect the application being shared; it was developed for use in the
electronic classroom.
    XTV is a conference program which can be used to duplicate the
"chalkboard" on several displays. Release 1 is available on the X11R5 contrib
tapes; a more recent version is on ftp.cs.odu.edu as pub/wahab/XTV.r2.tar.Z.
    SHX from Michael Altenhofen of Digital Equipment GmbH CEC Karlsruhe
also does this; it is a "WYSIWIS" (What You See Is What I See) package in the
context of a computer-based learning/training tool to provide online help from
remote tutors but is also useful for general window sharing. Information:
[e-mail].  SHX can be found on export and
        gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/X11/contrib/shX.tar.Z,
        crl.dec.com:/pub/X11/contrib/shX.tar.Z
Modifications to SHX for color mapping and private color allocation by
Mark J. Handley ([e-mail]) are on cs.ucl.ac.uk in
car/shX.car.tar.Z.
    XTrap is implemented as a server/library extension and can be used
to record and then replay an x session. It is available as:
        gatekeeper.dec.com      pub/X11/contrib/XTrap_v31.tar.Z
        export.lcs.mit.edu      contrib/XTrap_v31.tar.Z
    wscrawl can be used as a "multi-person paint program". It's available
on sax.stanford.edu as wscrawl.shar.Z.
    Shdr implements a simple shared whiteboard, without a chalk-passing
mechanism. It's available on parcftp.xerox.com as pub/europarc/shdr.tar.Z.

Also of use:
        Hewlett-Packard Co. has a commercial product, "HP SharedX" which works
under HP-UX currently on their 300, 400, and 700 series workstations and their
HP 700/RX X Stations.  Machines receiving shared windows can be any X server.
HP SharedX consists of a server extensions and a Motif based user interface
process.  Contact your local HP sales rep. for more information.
    IBM offers a commercial product.
    Sun offers multi-user confering software called ShowMe.
    InSoft (Mechanicsburg, PA, USA) offers multi-user confering software
called Communique.

[Thanks in part to [e-mail] (Tim Scott), 5/91, and to Peter Cigehn
([e-mail]), 8/92 ]

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Subject:  90)  TOPIC: BUILDING THE X DISTRIBUTION [topic needs updating to R5]
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Subject:  91)  What's a good source of information on configuring the X build?

    This FAQ includes information on a number of "gotchas" that can bite
you on particular system. However, the best source of general information on
building the X11 release is found in the Release Notes. The file is bundled
separately from the rest of the release, so if it's become separated from your
sources you can FTP another copy separately: the file RELNOTES.[ms,PS,TXT] at
the top of the distribution. The file RELNOTES is also available from the
xstuff mail server.
    In addition, O'Reilly & Associates's Volume 8 on X Administration
includes information on configuring and building X.

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Subject:  92)! Why doesn't my Sun with a cg6 work with R5?

    Apparently gcc is the problem; it seems to produce fine code for all
Sun displays except for the cgsix. The new sunGX.o distributed with fix-07
may fix the problem (note: not known to work on Solaris).

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Subject:  93)  Why doesn't my Sun with SunOS 4.1 know about _dlsym, etc.?

    If you get errors with _dlsym _dlopen _dlclose undefined, link with
libdl.a.  Add "-ldl" to your and eventually your site.def.  You may want to
surround it with "-Bstatic -ldl -Bdynamic" if you add it to the EXTRA_LIBRARIES
variable, since "syslibs" get added after EXTRA_LIBRARIES on the eventual
compilation command; otherwise you may not have a shared libdl.  (Or compile
the stubs shared.)

[thanks to Joe Backo ([e-mail]), 12/91]

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Subject:  94)  What is this strange problem building X clients on SunOS 4.1.2?

    In SunOS 4.1.2 Sun fixed a shared-library bug in ld which conflicts
with the way X11R4 builds the shared Xmu library, causing these symbols to be
undefined when building some X11 clients:
    _get_wmShellWidgetClass
    _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
Compiling "-Bstatic -lXmu -Bdynamic" appears to work.

To solve the problem if you are using OpenWindows 3.0 (X11R4-based Xt), please
contact your local Sun office and request the following patches:

Patch i.d.      Description
100512-02       4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 libXt Jumbo patch
100573-03       4.1.x OpenWindows 3.0 undefined symbols when using
                        shared libXmu

[Greg Earle, [e-mail]; 7/92]

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Subject:  95)  Why can't gcc compile X11R4 on my SPARC?
I used gcc to compile the whole distribution, but I get several segmentation
faults when running X.

    Note first that gcc on RISC machines does not necessarily result in
any performance increase; it certainly is not as noticeable as it is on the
680x0 or VAX platforms.

    Here is the problem: gcc and cc use incompatible methods of passing
structures as arguments and returning them as function values, so when
gcc-compiled parts of X are linked with Sun-supplied functions that pass or
return structs, run-time errors occur.  Affected programs include rgb and
the server.

    This is from the GCC manual:

    On the Sparc, GNU CC uses an incompatible calling convention for
    structures.  It passes them by including their contents in the argument
    list, whereas the standard compiler passes them effectively by
    reference.

    This really ought to be fixed, but such calling conventions are not yet
    supported in GNU CC, so it isn't straightforward to fix it.

    The convention for structure returning is also incompatible, and
    `-fpcc-struct-return' does not help.

You can duck the problem either by using cc throughout or by using it for just
the routines which cause incompatibilities; the problem cannot be solved with
compilation flags.

    Files which need to be compiled using cc include:
        server/os/4.2bsd/oscolor.c
        rgb/rgb.c

    In addition, several of the "inet_" functions use structs as args or
return values:
        clients/xhost/xhost.c
        clients/xauth/gethost.c.
Calls to inet_addr in /lib/CLX/socket.c and lib/X/XConnDis.c are possibly
harmless as they don't involve structs.

[collected by [e-mail] (Don Bashford); 8/90]

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Subject:  96)  What are these I/O errors running X built with gcc?
When I try to run xinit or the Xsun server I get the error
    "Getting interface configuration: Operation not supported on socket.
    Fatal server bug! no screens found."

    Running the gcc fixincludes script apparently didn't work. You can do
this simple test:

    #include <sys/ioctl.h>
    SIOCGIFCONF

Run that through cc -E and gcc -E.  The last line of output is the piece of
interest; it should be identical (modulo irrelevant differences like
whitespace).  If the gcc version has 'x' where the cc version has 'i', your
fixincludes run didn't work for some reason or other; go back to your gcc
sources and run `fixincludes`; then rebuild the X distribution. If they are
identical, try running a make clean in mit/server and rebuilding, just to make
sure everything gets compiled with the proper include files.

[courtesy der Mouse, [e-mail]; 9/90]

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Subject:  97)  What are these problems compiling X11R4 on the older Sun3?
In mit/server/ddx/sun/sunCG3C.c, we have found "missing" defines for
CG3AC_MONOLEN, CG3BC_MONOLEN, CG3AC_ENBLEN, CG3BC_ENBLEN. What should these be?

    The R4 Errata list distributed after X11R4 mentions that you can add
these lines to the file on older SunOS versions (e.g. 3.5) to compile:
        #define CG3AC_MONOLEN (128*1024)
        #define CG3AC_ENBLEN  CG3AC_MONOLEN
        #define CG3BC_MONOLEN CG3AC_MONOLEN
        #define CG3BC_ENBLEN  CG3AC_MONOLEN

    However, the Sun3 should not actually ever have the CG3 device, and so
references to it can be removed from mit/server/ddx/sun/sunInit.c and the
Imakefile.  [11/90]

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Subject:  98)  What are these problems compiling the X server on SunOS 4.1.1?
The file <sundev/cg6reg.h> isn't being found.

    Sun omitted <sundev/cg6reg.h> from SunOS 4.1.1. Remove the #include
from sunCG6C.c and replace it with the line
    #define CG6_VADDR_COLOR   0x70016000
The file has changed from earlier versions of SunOS and should not be copied
from another distribution.

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Subject:  99)  What are these problems using R4 shared libraries on SunOS 4?
All of the executables that I try to run have the following results:
    ld.so: libXmu.so.4: not found
or even:
    ld.so: call to undefined procedure __GetHostname from 0xf776a96c

    If you are building with shared libraries on a Sun, remember that you
need to run "ldconfig" as root after installing the shared libraries (if you've
installed X on a file-server, run it on the server's clients, too).  While
building and installing the distribution, you need to be careful to avoid
linking against any existing X shared libraries you might have (e.g. those
distributed with OpenWindows).  You should make sure you do not have
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in your environment during the build or the installation.
If you are going to keep xterm and xload as setuid programs, please note that
the shared libraries must be installed in /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, or
/usr/5lib for these programs to work (or else those programs must be linked
statically). [courtesy MIT X Consortium]
    Note also that the program mkfontdir is run as part of the build; it
attempts, however, to use the shared libraries before they have been installed.
You can avoid the errors by building mkfontdir statically (pass -Bstatic to
most C compilers).

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Subject: 100)  Can OLIT programs run with R5 Xt? (_XtQString undefined)

This is a bug in the OLIT.  _XtQString was an external symbol that existed in
X11R4 (upon which OW 3.0's libXt is based).  It wasn't documented and was
removed in X11R5 (MIT's guarantee of upward compatibility between the R4 and R5
libraries only applied to the documented interface).

A workaround is to temporarily set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the X11R5
Xt library that you linked the program against.

[10/92; from Barry Margolin ([e-mail])

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Subject: 101)  How do I get around the SunOS 4.1 security hole?

    There is a security problem with certain R4 clients (xterm and xload)
running under SunOS 4.1 that have been installed setuid root and are using
shared libraries; to avoid the problem, do one of these:
    1) make the program non-setuid. You should consult your system
administrator concerning protection of resources (e.g. ptys and /dev/kmem) used
by these programs, to make sure that you do not create additional security
problems at your site.
    2) relink the programs statically (using -Bstatic).
    3) install the libraries before linking and link with absolute paths
to the libraries.

[from [e-mail] (Bob Scheifler), 12/90]

The R5 version of xterm does this automatically by rebuilding xterm against the
newly-installed libraries when xterm is being installed; this prevents an suid
program from being built with libraries specified relatively. Note that this
may cause an inconvenience when doing the installation from NFS-mounted disks.
Xload has been rewritten to avoid the problem.

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David B. Lewis                     [e-mail]

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