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From: jwb@mcnc.org (Jack W. Buchanan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xfish question
Message-ID: <1360@speedy.mcnc.org>
Date: 27 Aug 89 14:39:55 GMT
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In article <3648@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>
>Weelll, I tried it on our Vaxstation 2000  4-plane color machines,
>and after it puts up the background water (aquamarine in color) 
>with some bubbles, and it lowers itself to the bottom of the window
>stack,  the whole system gets wedged.  Soon, no one on the machine
>can do anything, AND the HALT button on the back doesn't even work!
>
>Has anyone else tried it on a VS2000 (4-plane color)?
>Running X11.3 with patches 1-9, Ultrix 3.0
>
>_____________________________________
>Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
>We don't need no signatures!

I'm the guy who said it was easy (and also gave a non device independent way
to do it--I knew better in general, but I probably don't really know enough
specifics about X to even post here (but I'm learning).  As I pointed out in
my message, what I actually did was run the program as a client on the Ultrix
machine running Ultrix 3.0 I think, maybe 3.1  and UWS 2.1 (monochrome 
VaxStation II) and display on the DECWindows {VMS} server on a 4-plane color 
VAXStation 2000 running VMS 5.1-1.  I made an assumption that if the program
could run on ultrix and negotiate the ultrix-vms X interface to display on a
VMS machine, it should certainly be able to do it all on ultrix (and 4.3bsd,
and x11r3 instead of DECwindows),i.e. run properly on a 4 plane vaxstation
running ultrix or bsd.  This appears to have been an unwarranted assumption.
Sorry for the confusion. Incidently, the ultrix machine was heavily loaded
(for a vaxstation --1 user doing an extensive C compilation and 2 or 3 others
doing editing/mail) when I was playing with this.  The VMS vs 2000 was only
displaying the fish.
	Jack Buchanan (jwb@mcnc.org)