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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: YARTS (Yet Another Release Two Story)
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Date: 12 Apr 88 13:47:25 GMT
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> XBIFF:  They weren't kidding about ugly bitmaps. I wonder why they
>         didn't use the one from X10 R4? A lot of nice features from
>         the X10 one are missing (eg starting your mail reader).

I did.  However, it was a version of xbiff that I wrote a long time ago.  This
was a one hour hack.  We'll most gladly accept diffs, new bitmaps, rewrites,
etc.


> Emacs:  I got 18.50 from PREP. It seems to generally work. The XMENU
>         stuff has not been put in yet. I wish you could position the
>         icon in a resource. The "-rn" (resource name) option ends up
>         being interpreted as a filename. The cursor color seems to
>         randomly switch between the color specified in "Cursor" and
>         "Foreground" resources.

People should make sure that they get 18.51 when it comes out.  The X11 support
in 18.50 was buggy and somewhat confusing to use.