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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: PC X servers / backing store
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.011210.21219@grebyn.com>
Date: 2 Mar 91 01:12:10 GMT
References: <1991Feb19.152725.24673@ucthpx.uct.ac.za>
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In article <1991Feb19.152725.24673@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> fsg@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Fred S. Goldstein) writes:
>The suppliers of Grafit informed me that the X server implementation
>probably did not support backing store  - a requirement for their 
>package ( or for the HP Starbase/X implementation? ).

(Not the answer you're looking for, I know, but...)

You should tell the authors of Grafit that the program is flawed and
should be fixed.  If it only works with backing store then it's not a
good X client.  IMHO.

Sure, the program is designed to run on a particular workstation, and
they might know that vendor's X has backing store. But what if backing store
becomes exhausted? It can.  And since X is a networked system, then just
because the program's running on the workstation there's no telling what
display device, of the entire range of possible commercial or private
options, is presenting the display.
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