Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!shelby!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!dan From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: The Three Religions of NeXT X Message-ID: <1991Jan17.001710.43@gacvx2.gac.edu> Date: 17 Jan 91 06:17:10 GMT References: <14378@milton.u.washington.edu> <6579@mace.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Jan16.163747.4557@cc.helsinki.fi> Lines: 27 In article <1991Jan16.163747.4557@cc.helsinki.fi>, jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: > I just wrote this to show that the main purpose for X Windows on a NeXT > would not be to offer the BASIC programs. If you want something very > special, that has been done on X Windows but not on NeXTstep, then there > is a place for X. (Or if you happen to have much X applications > already.) > > But I guess that there will soon be many special and important products > for NeXTstep - and some of them might not be available for X Windows. > > Jouni One the reasons to use X applications over a NeXTstep application that has the same basic funtionality it to be able to exchange data with a workgroup that is not lucky enough to have NeXTstep to work with. I am especially not impressed with the NeXT's ability to import editable object graphics from other platforms, bitmaps are great for some things, but I have network maps that I would like to continue to keep up to date, bitmaps just don't cut it. TopDraw or even Draw would be great for these maps, but neither one can read my files. I don't want to have to redraw the maps. -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)933-7596