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From: rprobst@SUN.COM (Richard Probst)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 under Sunview: How to do it
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Date: 10 Oct 89 18:01:40 GMT
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Greg Tarsa writes:

>    1)	An official announcement of an X11/NeWS, with binary
>	SunView compatibility is imminent.

The official announcement has been made.  In fact, I got a mild
flame for announcing a product to this group (or perhaps the flame
was for not editing out enough of the marketing hype; sorry, I'll
edit tougher next time).  But I believe that this news group is an
appropriate place to spread the word about X11 products shipping.

So let me say it again.  X11/NeWS is shipping.  Any SunView program
will run on top of X11/NeWS; full binary compatibility is supported.
However, SunView programs cannot run remotely, always appear on
top of any X11 or NeWS window, and do not look like OPEN LOOK.

On the same tape as X11/NeWS is the XView toolkit.  SunView programs
can be converted to XView with some small effort (after the learning
curve, about a day for many applications), after which the program can
run remotely, shares the screen fairly, and does look like OPEN LOOK.

X11/NeWS is simply another implementation of X11, that happens to
have support for the PostScript language and imaging model.  Any
R3 or R4 client should work with X11/NeWS (but if the client's not
ICCCM-compliant, it may not get the input focus until you make a
simple fix).  And in addition, all SunView programs work with X11/NeWS.

To order the OpenWindows tape, talk to your Sun salescritter.  You 
can get XView source from expo via ftp, or on the X11 R4 tape.

	--Richard Probst