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- From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
- Subject: Re: Sun to use DisplayPostScript!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.225944.20400@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:59:44 GMT
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- In article <C1KsMo.Kp5@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca> rjkroege@pebbles.uwaterloo.ca (Robert Kroeger) says:
- : Frank Peter says(bout my previous emotional post :-):
- : > NeWS already runs in Solaris 2. The OpenWindows that comes with 2.1 is
- : > still X11/NeWS based.
- :
- : The next release of Solaris, the one that fixes all the current bugs
- : won't have NeWS, only X. It is to this that I'm volunteering to
- : help Liam port NeWS to.
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- It will have bug fixes...not major system interface changes. "Porting"
- would probably consist of writing /usr/openwin to tape and then reading
- it back in on the new system. I sincerely doubt that there will be any
- real "porting" in the sense of code changes.
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- Frank Peters - UNIX Systems Programmer - Mississippi State University
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