Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Xnext (mouse-X) Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 15:47:32 GMT References: <1991Mar15.052404.4117@neon.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: texnext.gac.edu In-reply-to: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu's message of 15 Mar 91 05:24:04 GMTLines: 33 In article <1991Mar15.052404.4117@neon.Stanford.EDU> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes: 5. XNext doesn't support the Display postscript extensions that DEC has added to their X severs that their client programs use. :-). That would surprise me, if added, because that's hard. You might argue that the machine runs DPS, right? Wrong, because the server is a port of MIT's and writes directly to the frame buffer - DPS doesn't have a chance to get in there. Maybe in the future Pencom (or someone) will come up with this. I have not gotten coXist yet, but from what I have heard, it runs X in a NeXTStep window. I think this is a nice solution when I want to be able to run one or two X programs, while still having access to all of the nice NeXTStep programs. I think that the two programs solve slightly different problems. Having both would probably be the best solution. (Disk space permitting) I would bet that you could loose alot by removing the overlap. For instance, if you want to have both mouse-X and coXist, you only really need both servers and one set of clients - because the clients (by definition) shouldn't depend on the server they're working with. The mouse-X server is about .5M, which I can afford (if I needed X, that is - right now I use it to play xhextris, and that's about it :-). Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "I smoke the nose Lucifer . . . Banana, banana."