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From: jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: using X11.4 clients with a X11.3 server
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Date: 6 Sep 90 21:53:09 GMT
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There were no protocol changes between R4 and R3.  And R3 already had decent
font naming support.  So the answer is that R4 stuff should work with an R3
server just fine.

Jim Gettys
Digital Equipment Corporation
Cambridge Research Laboratory