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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: using X11.4 clients with a X11.3 server
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.084245@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 7 Sep 90 06:42:45 GMT
References: <924@ap542.uucp>
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In article <924@ap542.uucp>, mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann) writes:
|> Only I can't seem to get the R3 sources anymore, only R4.
|> What will happen if manage to get libs and clients compiled and running
|> and then try to run them on my X-terminal?
|> 
|> Worst case would be "it won't run at all", of course, best case if I'm lucky
|> that at least *most* of the stuff would run.

You are on the lucky side: most of the stuff will run. The only thing that
will not run are non-rectangular windows - you will get rectangular ones
instead.

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