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From: rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How can X-Windows be used to port between Operating Environments
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Date: 18 Oct 88 18:47:18 GMT
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I am quite new to the world of X-windows.  I have a friend who is porting an
application from the Amiga to the Mac.  He later intends to port this same
application to some unix workstations and possible OS/2 machines.  I am looking 
for the most expedient way to handle this.

Is it possible to write a package for the Macintosh OS or MS-Windows such 
that the package can be ported and recompiled to a unix machine running 
X-Windows? Is this a valid use of X-Servers running on PC's and Mac's?
My understanding is that the X-windows system contains both much of the 
event handing/user interface functionality of the Macintosh 
plus additional networking protocols for manipulating the display
of windows on  a computer other than the one on which an application is
running.  I would think this would mean that an application could be written
on a mac using some sub-set of X-windows and later more functionality could 
be added.  Is anyone working along these lines?