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From: korp@TRIPOLI.EES.ANL.GOV
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Subject: Nasty Bugs in X11/NeWS
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Date: 10 Nov 89 21:59:27 GMT
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There appears to be a nasty bug in X11/NeWS. If you setcanvas to
some canvas, translate, create a path and then attempt to fill the
path, the whole canvas gets filled. Stroke also is affected, but
not as often as fill. Several programs seem to fail with this bug.

Is there a workaround? When will this be fixed.

I use a 4/260 with 110Mb of swap space, when I ask for a retained
canvas that is 900x900 I don't get it. I know asking for a retained
canvas is only supposed to be a hint, but my machine has more than
enough space to store this canvas. 

How does the X11/NeWS server decide when to grant retained canvases?

			Peter
			Argonne National Laboratory
			korp@athens.ees.anl.gov