mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann) (09/06/90)
Hi! Not being in the know of the X-protocol niceties, I post this question even though it may sound dumb. I have just received a X-terminal equiped with a Release 3 server. Also I have heaps of sources for R3 and R4. So far so good. Unfortunatly The libraries that go with the host are still R2! So the logical thing to do is to port the libs and clients for a higher release version. Only I can't seem to get the R3 sources anymore, only R4. What will happen if manage to get libs and clients compiled and running and then try to run them on my X-terminal? Worst case would be "it won't run at all", of course, best case if I'm lucky that at least *most* of the stuff would run. Any hints? Thanks Mike Mike Hoffmann, SIEMENS AG, Dept DI AP 542 | The surest sign of intelligent life UUCP: mike@ap542.UUCP | in the Universe is, that is hasn't INTERNET:mike%ap542@ztivax.siemens.com | tried to contact us. (Calvin)
jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) (09/07/90)
There were no protocol changes between R4 and R3. And R3 already had decent font naming support. So the answer is that R4 stuff should work with an R3 server just fine. Jim Gettys Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge Research Laboratory
klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (09/07/90)
In article <924@ap542.uucp>, mike@ap542.uucp (Mike Hoffmann) writes: |> Only I can't seem to get the R3 sources anymore, only R4. |> What will happen if manage to get libs and clients compiled and running |> and then try to run them on my X-terminal? |> |> Worst case would be "it won't run at all", of course, best case if I'm lucky |> that at least *most* of the stuff would run. You are on the lucky side: most of the stuff will run. The only thing that will not run are non-rectangular windows - you will get rectangular ones instead. -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (09/09/90)
> I have just received a X-terminal equiped with a Release 3 server. > [...wants to use R4 library and client sources...] > What will happen if manage to get libs and clients compiled and > running and then try to run them on my X-terminal? You're in luck. An R3 server should interoperate just fine with R4 clients. Of course, unless it's a rather unusual R3 server, you won't have things like nonrectangular windows that came out in R4, but that's entirely unavoidable, and R4 clients generally degrade gracefully in the presence of an R3 server[%]. You likely won't notice any problems at all. (Or at least, no more than you would with an R4 server :-) [%] Of course, it's possible that some client out there will refuse to run without the Multi-Buffering extension (say), but such clients are, as I understand it, rare. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
wicks@AIS1.BAL.MMC.COM (Anthony B. Wicks) (09/12/90)
Date: 6 Sep 90 14:36:20 GMT
From: mcsun!unido!ztivax!ap542!ap542.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Mike Hoffmann)
Organization: Siemens AG, DI AP 542
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Only I can't seem to get the R3 sources anymore, only R4.
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Mike Hoffmann, SIEMENS AG, Dept DI AP 542 | The surest sign of intelligent life
UUCP: mike@ap542.UUCP | in the Universe is, that is hasn't
INTERNET:mike%ap542@ztivax.siemens.com | tried to contact us. (Calvin)
Mike,
In the recently mail "Frequently Asked Questions" there was a list
of places that have X11R3 sources. If you already deleted this message or
haven't gotten this yet, let me know and I'll forward it to you.
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