Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!gould!dme From: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk (Dave Edmondson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Supported R4 server from HP via ftp Message-ID: Date: 1 Aug 90 08:06:09 GMT References: <101950138@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> Sender: dme@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Imperial College Mafia Lines: 28 In-reply-to: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi's message of 31 Jul 90 17:03:00 GMT In article tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: tml> Great! This is just the kind of support we HP customers who are tml> fortunate enough to have Internet access appreciate. but what support is it ? if i ring up my local support people i guess (i've not yet tried) that they are going to know nothing about this beast, but the note said that it is `HP supported'. what does this support mean ? tml> I have been running the MIT sample server (with the HP-supplied tml> binary-only device dependent part) until now, but this version is tml> faster, and more bug free, I hope. on a 98550 this one does indeed appear to be quite a bit faster. on other displays the difference isn't as noticable. i do have a problem in that it only wants to know about some of the fonts (i previously had the MIT r4 stuff) - any suggestions ? tml> Once again, thanks. I agree. thanks for improving my X server (and therefore my life :-) tml> Tor Lillqvist, dave. -- Dave Edmondson Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 1BZ UK phone: 071-589-5111 x5085 fax: 071-581-8024 dme@doc.ic.ac.uk, ..!ukc!icdoc!dme, dme@athena.mit.edu