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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to get to server extensions?
Message-ID: <9002061340.AA11747@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 13:40:48 GMT
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    The MIT's X11R4 server under SunOS claims to have MIT-SHM, I am assumeing that
    it is a way for clients to talk to the X server & that Xlib takes care of using
    it.

Not quite.  MIT-SHM is not a general-purpose shared-memory transport, it's an
experimental extension to support shared-memory pixmaps and Get/PutImage.

    Also what is included in MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD, it includes the MIT-COOKIE-1
    auth. protocall, does it have anything else?

It does not include MIT-COOKIE-1 (that doesn't require an extension), it only
includes requests to support "xset [-]bc".  Not very interesting.

    I'm willing to RTFM for all of this, but I can't find a FM for this stuff...

These are both experimental, we didn't get around to writing documentation,
sorry.  Use the Source, Luke.  It's usually pretty obvious from the Xlib
interface routines.