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From: lacsap@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Pascal Chesnais)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: XNeXT distribution on ORST is incomplete
Message-ID: <1654@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 90 22:22:35 GMT
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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Given that a lot of copies of XNeXT will be derived from the distribution
on orst here is a list of "Bewares":

The distribution is meant to complement the official X distribution. Man pages,
documentation and sources (minus the XNeXT server sources as explained in
the README.wn file) are available from normal X distributions.

The installation scripts are probably broken, and library files needed 
to compile your own clients are ommited. They will be present in the
official release.

Finally I can not emphasize how important it is *not* to redistribute
the "unofficial" distribution of XNeXT. It will cause eventual grief for
people who get it without the above warnings. It would really be good
if people could sit back and wait for the "official" word. The only
thing that the broken distribution gives you is an X server that is
a behaves better than the demo one.

pasc

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Pascal Chesnais, Research Specialist, Electronic Publishing Group
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