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From: rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: dde @ sr 10.3 (X only) ?
Keywords: dde, X11, pads
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Date: 10 Jul 90 19:39:49 GMT
References: <1668@tuvie>
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In article <1668@tuvie>, mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) writes:
    Maybe Apollo should write a pad emulation for X. Just like
    xterm for vt100 and xpcterm on some 386 boxes to emulate 
    a PC console?

There happens to be an OST pad trait, and I almost wrote an xpad once. But
that would just get you the pad calls, not gpr, so things like dde still
wouldn't work.  I only have one program that I use regularly that could run
in "xpad" and I decided it would be easier and more portable to re-write it
to use X directly.

If I had a good debugger that didn't need pad support I could drop the DM
today.

For the guy trying to get the vt100 emulator to work:  Why not use xterm
instead?

Speaking of X, I now have a shared, inlibed x11r4lib.  My r4 clients have
gone from 500-900K to 5-250K.  xrn, for example, went from 950K to 225K.