Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify!openlook!openlook-request From: lwv27%CAS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Larry W. Virden lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re(2): Misc OpenWindows 2.0 questions Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 11:34:18 GMT Lines: 23 -------- >> >> Seems funny that NeWS, with its innate shape capabilities, is having >> problems at this point, if indeed it is. > > The "problems" with NeWS have nothing to do with supporting > the X Window Shape extension. And also recall that an > extension may or *may not* be available... In this case, its not. > > Frank G. > > If you want "decent" arbitrary shapes for output *and* input, > use NeWS or Display Postscript. What _I_ want is to be able to use the various pgms posted to comp.sources.x and mit, as well as Sun's OpenWindows software. But it looks like I have to run two different servers to do that. Sigh. -- Larry W. Virden UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 Same Mbox: BITNET: lwv27@cas INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 America Online: lvirden --------