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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R4 clients on a R3 server
Message-ID: <973@boing.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 91 20:25:07 GMT
References: <1403@phcisa.UUCP> <1991Apr24.153156.4117@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <1991Apr24.153156.4117@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> andreess@mrlaxe.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
>In article <1403@phcisa.UUCP> frans@origin.nl () writes:
>>Can somebody tell me whether it is possible to run X11R4 clients on an
>>X11R3 server?

We did this since it was pretty easy to move xlib, etc. on to
R4 for AmigaDOS. A bit more of a problem move the server onto R4.

We dumped all the R3 clients in favor of the R4 clients.

>Yup, I do it all the time.  Usually, font mismatches and nonexistent
>cursors are my biggest problems when running across platforms/revisions.

This is most easily fixed by dumping the R3 fonts and subsituting the R4
fonts. Also use the new cursor file. No real reason to keep the
R3 fonts.

We did this last year to our system. Also allows you to use the dec
fonts.alias files to get most of those applications to come up without
complaining.

-- 
Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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