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From: rand@hwcae.cfsat.honeywell.com
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Subject: Re: X11R4 clients (Where are they!)
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Date: 26 Mar 91 20:28:49 GMT
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>>>>> On 25 Mar 91 19:09:00 GMT, kumorek@apollo.hp.com (James Kumorek) said:
> Perhaps I don;t understand your question, but X11R4 is a PSK that is installed
> on top of SR10.3.  SR10.3 has all the X clients that we support (like
> xterm and such), so you already have those.

Right. I already have the R3 clients, they came with SR10.2 and
SR10.3. But I don't have the R4 clients that I was expecting with this
PSK.  They are different. One visible difference is that the R4 xterm
has actions defined for scrolling that can be bound to keys. Just like
mterm. There are many other advantages that the R4 clients have.

So the only way to get the R4 clients is to get the MIT tape and
compile them myself. (As Michael K. Gschwind says: "Just why are we
buying their OS?")

After talking to a very friendly person at HP/Apollo who helped me get
the hot key running with Xdomain I learned that there will be a
PSKQ3-91 that will have the R4 clients and the developers stuff too.
(Include files and libraries and the such.) So, all we gotta do is
wait for the third quarter.

Now, I don't mind much that HP/Apollo split up the R4 releases into
the server and the rest. I'll deal with the difficulties to get the R4
server quicker. But, it would have been nice if they would have told
us what was really going on.

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