dvb@emisle.emisle (David Van Beveren) (03/06/91)
I have a need to run X11R4 over a transport other than TCP/IP. Specifically, instead of the socket interface, I would like to use the tli interface which is supported when building with -DSTREAMSCONN. I am running on an AT&T System V 3.2, running on a PC. (Unix is AT&T's, not some other vendors PC port of SystemV). I only have the source code as a manual. I have followed the line of the code from XOpenDis.c, and traced through Xstreams.c, noting the opening of /dev/ptx, /dev/X/server?, Xconnections and the like. The question I have is, how do these devices get built? Does the X11R4 distribution create these devices? Also, does the distribution include a simple name server or do I need to write one? Does anyone have some pointers as to how to do this? MAybe it has been done? I assume it has been done, but I do not expect that I could get ahold of a copy. (Although that would be best) If I build with -Datt, according to the att.cf file, I will not get a server. Well, where do I get a server for this platform? I could use my existing servers on other platforms, but they are not tli-based. If someone has X11R4 up and running on an AT&T platform, using -DSTREAMSCONN (this is defined in the att.cf file, so I assume it is the default), please help me. What are all of the things I need to do to get up and running? Most important, where is all of this documented? Currently, I do not have an AT&T platform to make X on, so I cannot experiment. This will change when and if I can understand all of the steps needed to make it work. All help is greatly appreciated. -- David Van Beveren INTERNET: emisle!dvb@ism.isc.com EIS ltd. Professional Software Services UUCP: ..uunet!emisle!dvb voice: (818) 587-1247
gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea) (03/07/91)
The nameserver you need for SVR3 is in the X11R4 distribution in the directory mit/util/att-nameserver/ < Stephen MIT X Consortium