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- From: steinber@machtnix.ert.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg H tenhagen)
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- Subject: [comp.os.linux] X386-1.2E-1.0.1 server binary (for hackers only)
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- Date: 21 Aug 1992 07:14:22 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.os.linux/X386-1-2E-1-0-1-server-binary-for-hackers-only
-
- Hi there,
-
- I just uploaded
-
- Lucid GNU Emacs 19.2 for Linux
- X386-1.2E-1.0.1 server binary
-
- to
-
- ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de: /incoming/Linux
- ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de: /tmp/Linux
-
- and am presently uploading that stuff to tsx-11, funic and reggae as well.
- It might take some time until the file show up there, since it's 6.6 MB :-)
-
- Have fun!
- Dirk
-
- Dirk Steinberg
- dirkst@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
-
- **** X386-1.2E.README ****
-
- This is a dump of the X server binary that I work with.
- It corresponds to MIT pl 14 + X386-1.2E-1.0.1 patches.
- This is NOT the very newest stuff you can get (pl16/1.0.2).
-
- I just put this out because there was a request for a newer
- X than 1.1 and X 2.0 seems to take some time...
-
- So, before you get this, think twice! This is *NOT* intended
- to be a 'release' and is not 'official' in any sense. I will
- also not support this, I'll probably switch to the official
- X 2.0 when orst releases it.
-
- The server is linked shared with an old version of gcc-2.2.2d;
- the libs are included, but I still is not a nice thing.
- If you have a version of /lib/libc.2.2.2d, you will have to
- replace that with the included one, BUT ANY BINARIES LINKED
- WITH YOUR COPY OF /lib/libc.2.2.2d WILL BREAK.
- This is not a problem if you have the official release of
- gcc-2.2.2d, since the libs are now called /lib/libc.so.*.
-
- The server was compiled with '-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -m486'
- but should work on any 386 as well. All extensions except
- PEX are compiled in. That is SHAPE, MULTIBUF, compressed font
- and Type1 font support. Compressed font support means that you
- can just 'compress -v *.pcf' in your font directory; this
- saves a lot of disk space, but it also takes longer to load a
- font--doesn't matter for me, 'cause I got a fast machine.
- You need to make a new font dir with the included mkfontdir.
-
- I have used this server for some weeks now and it seems to be
- OK; I just noticed that sometimes it grows to some MB and never
- shrinks again. I guess that this is due to some clients not
- deallocating resources (pixmaps or whatever, I don't know too
- much about the inner workings of the server) before they exit.
-
- The server works fine for me, but your mileage may vary :-)
-
- I strongly recommend that you get the color xterm from rutgers.edu
- and set the 'xterm*noScroll: true' resource--it makes such a big
- difference. Also, you should really get olvwm.
- Take these three things together (new server, xterm, olvwm) and
- you have a really nice and fast environment.
-
- I used freeze instead of compress on the tar file because it makes
- it much smaller (544K vs. 752K, ~ 30% smaller). The binary is
- freeze_Linux and requires /lib/libc.2.2.2. See the lemacs
- (Lucid GNU Emacs 19.2) README.
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Dirk
-
- Dirk Steinberg
- dirkst@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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