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- From: hersh@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jay Hersh)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.pex
- Subject: Re: what is PEX5 in MIT-X11R5 patch 19
- Message-ID: <hersh.726258733@xenon.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:32:13 GMT
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- schmidt@rpksun1.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Martin Schmidt) writes:
-
- > - Is PEXlib a new API to the PEX-SI server ! Does this mean
- > that the capabilities of the server remain unchanged !?
-
- Yes
-
-
- > - Can someone just point out what are the important new features
- > of the PEXlib which were not available by the old PEX-binding ?
-
- What old PEX Binding?? The only previously available API
- was the PEX-SI PHIGS API which was a PHIGS implementation
- and thus required you to use the PHIGS C Binding and be
- subject to all PHIGS policy rather than allowing access
- the the Protocol directly
-
-
- > - The problem in using PEX API is that it is very much low level
- > interface. This was the reason why I mentioned that I use the
- > "phigs API from MIT X11R5". Is there any similar "high level
- > interface" to this PEXlib ??
-
- There are some older APIs available for anonymous ftp
- from export.lcs.mit.edu in the contrib directory.
- There may even be newer ones developed on top of PEXlib
- available there I don't know, but I guess someone is
- working on something.
-
- > - Exist there some demonstration programs ?
-
- If you look at Tom Gaskins PEXlib book there are some example
- programs that are publicly ftp-able from someplace. I don't
- recall where, but it is listed in the book.
-
-
-
- Jay Hersh
- MIT X Consortium
-
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- Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalts
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