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From: hamid@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (HAMID SAMADANI)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X on Apollo
Message-ID: <1990Dec24.154618.23124@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 24 Dec 90 15:46:18 GMT
Reply-To: hamid@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
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	I'm porting a database system from a

		Sun 3/60 OS 4.0 (BSD 4.2 Unix)
		INGRES DBMS
		written in C
		supports X Windows as optional U/I

	to an Apollo DN 2500 SR10.2 (supports BSD 4.2).

	Questions:

	What do I need on the Apollo to support the X Windows interface?
	Would you recommend X as the user interface?  Or should I 
	pursue another alternative?  The system was written using Sun's
	cursor manipulation package 'curses' which in turn uses 'termcaps' 
	for its original user interface.  I'm told that the system also 
	supports X Windows.

		Hamid