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From: corbet@cyser.atd.ucar.edu (Jonathan Corbet)
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Subject: Re: MIT SHM extensions
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Date: 12 Feb 91 15:42:00 GMT
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jcoco@hobbes.ctc.tasc.COM (Joe Coco xwindows):

>If my system has the SHM extension, how do I use it?
>Is it automatically used or do I need to write Xlib
>code to access it?

You need to write Xlib code.  I wrote a short document on the shared memory
extension a while back; it's available for anonymous FTP from 
stout.atd.ucar.edu (128.117.80.30) in pub/X-shared-memory.doc.

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Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division
corbet@stout.atd.ucar.edu