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From: dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan Messinger)
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Subject: Re: Openwin or X11R4
Keywords: OpenWin X11R4
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Date: 13 Jun 91 14:06:56 GMT
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In article <1991Jun07.233354.2660@convex.com>, datri@convex.com (Anthony
A. Datri) writes:
|>   The xnews
|> server also loves to LOSE icons -- they disappear *completely*.

This is my primary reason for NOT using OL.  I would loose an icon at least
a half dozen times a day.  I reported it to Sun, and they claimed I had
something configured wrong, or there was some MIT software contaminating
the system.  I don't buy it.  I've lost icons while running several different
configurations.  I most often would run the xnews server (because there are
a couple of 3rd party SunView programs that I occasionally needed to run),
but all the clients are from the MIT tapes.  I would be willing to believe
that I was creating my own problems if I was using OL libraries with MIT
clients, or vice versa. But the icons still vanish when I use 100% MIT
clients on the xnews server.

Same thing goes for the server crashes. I have never been able to reproduce
the crash at will.  Xnews would simply die every now and then.

All these problems have completely dissappeared after switching back to the
MIT Xsun server. (no other changes)

 
|> In short, I tell my users to use the MIT server unless they have to run one
|> of several tools from vendors who still cling to Suntools.
|> 

Same here.