shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) (12/16/90)
Well, I have finished my semester finals and was expecting at this time
to post my address, number of disks to send, etc. Thomas Roell has informed
me that he will be issuing a NEW release of his 386/ix sVGA server with
the addition of the XView Toolkit in the next few weeks and has asked
me to hold off from distributing until then.
I have saved all of the e-mail addresses of those who want a personal
message sent to them when I'm ready to distribute. I cannot do so now
because I have no idea how many disks this new release is going to be.
The current one is about 8 megs so I would guess 10 megs but let's just
wait and see.
For those of you who are reading this and don't know what the heck I'm
talking about because you missed my first posting, I am going to distribute
FREE of charge (well, you send the disks and take care of the postage,
obviously) Tom Roell's complete port of X to 386/ix v2.0.2 / v2.2.
This offer is ONLY for folks that DO NOT have access to the Internet
which would allow them to FTP the files for themselves. The reason for
this is that I am not a free copy service for lazy people. I am trying
to help distribute this excellent free software as widely as possible
so more people benefit and hopefully enjoy it as much as I do.
Those who are on the Internet can get Tom Roell's server at:
/pub/i386/X11R4 [131.159.8.35] in Europe
/contrib expo.lcs.mit.edu USA
[18.30.0.212]
The files at MIT will start with 386ix...tar.Z. UUNET used to distribute
the binaries a couple of weeks ago but they dropped them either because
of disk space or because of the recent "legality" debate over Roell's
server. Everyone please read Piercarlo Grandi's article now in
comp.unix.sysv386...he knows what he's talking about and hopefully reading
it will help everyone to calm down.
P.S. I have no knowledge of the Esix or SCO ports of Roell's server so
I have no pointers to give. The server will NOT run on Esix even
though it is common for binaries from 386/ix to run on Esix or vice
versa.
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Steve Hite "Give of yourself and ask
UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!unf7!shite nothing in return."
Internet: shite@sinkhole.unf.edu -anonymousroell@informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Thomas Roell) (12/21/90)
> Well, I have finished my semester finals and was expecting at this time >to post my address, number of disks to send, etc. Thomas Roell has informed >me that he will be issuing a NEW release of his 386/ix sVGA server with >the addition of the XView Toolkit in the next few weeks and has asked >me to hold off from distributing until then. The reason, why I want people to wait is that for integration XView some very deep changes in the shared libs were made. This in turn means that you have to recompile all x-clients. So if you can wait, wait till the new release is out. BTW, the new release will be not available before end of january. Too much is to do... - Thomas -- _______________________________________________________________________________ E-Mail (domain): roell@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.de UUCP (when above fails): roell@tumult.{uucp | informatik.tu-muenchen.de} famous last words: "diskspace - the final frontier..."