Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!polygen!bill From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: X windows under MINIX Message-ID: <816@redford.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 90 16:11:56 GMT References: Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras) Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA Lines: 21 In article jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) writes: >even the tyniest X aplication uses libX11, almost all use libX11+libXt >and the vast majority uses libX11+libXt+libXaw. (568Kb) > > >They all need TCP (or blood, sweat and tears over the X listings) This is not true. TCP is only needed if you want to have X be network independant. This means that you can transparently display a window running on one machine, but displays on another. If you look at the source for Xlib, you would notice three types of connections: TCP, DECNET and a local connect which uses I believe pipes, or a similar communcation mechanism present in most unixes. If you want to network several minix machines with X and want to display from one machine to another, then yes you do need TCP/IP. Just trying to keep rumors from spreading. +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+ | Bill Poitras | Polygen Corporation | {princeton mit-eddie | | (bill) | Waltham, MA USA | bu sunne}!polygen!bill | | | | bill@polygen.com | +-----------------+---------------------------+-----------------------------+