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From: taylort@decus.com.au
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X on VMS
Message-ID: <5607.27356690@decus.com.au>
Date: 5 Nov 90 03:18:07 GMT
References: <28187@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Organization: DECUS, South Pacific Chapter
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In article <28187@bellcore.bellcore.com>, robinson@cp0201.bellcore.com (Ken Robinson) writes:
> Has anyone tried to build and install X11R4 on VMS.  I'm not talking
> about DECwindows but the FULL X11 release.
> 

DECwindows V3.0, which will is about to go to Field Test, is
an X11R4 server and includes Motif V1.1. Why would you want to
go to all the trouble to port the server (and it is not easy :-))
when DEC is doing it anyway?

While on the subject of R4, I would like to point out that many
of the R4 MIT clients now use the Toolkit and Athena widgets. I have
attempted to port these to the existing DECwindows, but there are
too many differences. (In particular, there are R4 routines which
are absent in DEC's R3 implementation.) 

The set of clients which I submitted to the DECUS Library is from 
the R3 distribution. As soon as I can get my hands on an R4 server 
for VMS I will start porting the R4 clients. (Hopefully this will
be the last time. With a little help from the guys at MIT, I'll
try to get the changes incorporated into the MIT distribution.)

	Trevor