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From: paul@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Haldane)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Displaying graphics from VMS to Sun X server
Keywords: uniras, decnet
Message-ID: <6629@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Oct 90 16:41:18 GMT
Reply-To: paul@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Haldane)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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We have some client software from a company called Uniras on one of our
VAX/VMS machines.  This is a piece of graphic software and so uses
things like GCs, pixmaps, createimages and the like.  When we use a
decstation connected by decnet as the server, then the software works
OK.  When we use a colour Sun (running X11R4) or Tektronix XN27 connected by tcp/ip,
then we get the following failure at initialisation time:

Illegal unit size: 8 found in routine: _normalizeimagebits
%XLIB-F-LIBABORT, xlib fatal error

The routine _normalizeimagebits is internal to decwindows which makes us
suspect that there may be an incompatibility problem. Has anyone had
similar experience?

Paul Haldane

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