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- From: haidl@cs.uregina.ca (Mark Haidl)
- Subject: Re: RISCwindows 4.X is only X11R4 based, any time frame for X11R5?
- Sender: news@sue.cc.uregina.ca
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.230909.582187@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:09:09 GMT
- References: <memo.848176@cix.compulink.co.uk> <1993Jan10.231131.25288@cs.su.oz.au> <1993Jan11.175303.510107@sue.cc.uregina.ca>
- Organization: University of Regina
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- haidl@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Mark Haidl) writes:
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- >rex@cs.su.oz.au (Rex Monty di Bona) writes:
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- >>In article <memo.848176@cix.compulink.co.uk> trevc@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >>> Although MIPS has not done an X11R5 release, they did attempt to fix
- >>> the problemm by retrofitting the changes into X11R4 when they did the
- >>> RISCwindows 4.10/4.11 release.
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- >>Is there any time frame for an X11R5 version of RISCwindows? Has anybody
- >>already done a build for RISC/OS 5.X and had any problems etc? We are about
- >>to start building the X11R5 version.
- >>--
- >>Rex di Bona (rex@cs.su.oz.au) Penguin Lust is NOT immoral
- >I have build X11R5pl0 under 5.0 and have been using it for about 4 months.
- >The only problem I have had is with the xterm program. Some programs
- >will not work with the pseudo tty the xterm uses(su and script core dump).
- >(this was expected due to the major tty changeds in 5.0)
- >Both of these are easy to work around so it overall has worked very well.
- >I haven't checked the patches lately to see if there have been any updates
- >to fix the xterm problem.
- I should have mentioned that I have not tested the server code as all of
- our MIPS machines are headless.
- --
- Mark Haidl, Systems Manager, Dept of Computer Science, U of Regina, Canada
- haidl@cs.uregina.ca, regina!mercury!haidl
- Phone: (306)585-4977, Fax: -5205
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