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- From: jhh@sprite.berkeley.edu (John H. Hartman)
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- Subject: mx/tx 2.5 available
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- Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:23:31 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- I've put together a version of mx and tx that uses the standard X
- selection mechanism, rather than the current home-grown variety.
- The sources are available on sprite.berkeley.edu in mx-2.5.tar.Z.
- A patch file is in mx-2.5.patch.Z. There are a few caveats:
-
- 1) mx and tx still use an old version of tcl (5.0 or so) and do
- not use tk. The version of tcl you need is included in the
- distribution. Get a copy of Brent Welch's "mxedit" if you want a
- version of mx that uses tk.
-
- 2) I didn't include support for the incremental mode of selection
- transfer. As a result mx and tx 2.5 will only handle selections
- up to 256KB in size. You can increase this if you want. Modify
- the TK_SEL_BYTES_AT_ONCE variable in the file sx/tkSelect.c.
-
- 3) The old selection mechanism is not supported at all, so you
- can't cut and paste between the new version of these programs and
- older versions.
-
- Let me know if you have any problems.
-
- John
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- John H. Hartman
- Graduate Student, UCB Sprite project
- jhh@sprite.berkeley.edu
-