mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann) (02/21/91)
I got the UIPEX system via anon ftp, and planned to port it on our system. Unfortunatly, it looks like your out of luck if you use X-terminals for which I don't have server sources. What work-arounds can be found? Is there any way to get a PHIGS library working, that only uses a standard server as supplied by manufacturers of X-terms? Even worse, these terminals still use an 11.3 server :-( Management decision... Mike -- Mike Hoffmann, Siemens-Nixdorf AG, SNI AP 712 UUCP: mike@ap542.uucp | INTERNET: mike%ap542@ztivax.siemens.com "For the new year I resolved, not to be offended by human nature. But I think I blew it already." (Hobbes)
pmartz@undies.dsd.es.com (Paul Martz) (02/22/91)
In article <1991Feb21.131212.18658@ap542.uucp>, mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann) writes: > I got the UIPEX system via anon ftp, and planned to port it on our system. > Unfortunatly, it looks like your out of luck if you use X-terminals for > which I don't have server sources. > > What work-arounds can be found? Is there any way to get a PHIGS library > working, that only uses a standard server as supplied by manufacturers > of X-terms? > > Even worse, these terminals still use an 11.3 server :-( > Management decision... > > Mike > -- > Mike Hoffmann, Siemens-Nixdorf AG, SNI AP 712 > UUCP: mike@ap542.uucp | INTERNET: mike%ap542@ztivax.siemens.com > "For the new year I resolved, not to be offended by human nature. > But I think I blew it already." (Hobbes) Since PEX adds its own protocol to that of X, yes, you're X Terminal won't be able to handle PEX requests unless it has been upgraded to understand the PEX protocol. There's no way to take a stock X-only server executable and get it to understand PEX protocol. At the very least you'd need the libraries that build the executable, plue the PEX libraries, and you'd also need to alter the source of one dix-level function to make it cognizant of the extension. I understand a startup called ShoGraphics in Mtn View is working on PEX-cognizant terminals, and there is a rumor that NCD is planning to do likewise. But until companies start providing these machines, your only recourse is to get hold of the X SI and some workstation, and build your own server (I believe that's what UI had in mind). Of course many companies are already providing an X/PEX server with their workstations (yes, that's a plug for Evans & Sutherland, as well as several other companies, such as DEC). Also note that with X11R5, there will be an official release of PEX by MIT. Not to put down the UI implementation, but to my knowledge, MIT had nothing to do with it... -- -paul pmartz@dsd.es.com