sback@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Steve Back) (02/16/89)
I'm bringing up X11V3 on our system(s) and as normal I am
running in a list of problems.
o The troff /doc/HelloWorld/xhw.ms doesn't
seem to be in the Imake file and I can't
seem to find the right combination of macros
and filters to get a readable output. I tried
tmac.s, which formats the text fine but leaves
the sample programs unreadable.
o Though the X11V3 seems to work allright most of the
contrib stuff doesn't seem as portable and some of
it would be useful. Any one have luck compiling
perfmon on a convex?
o I have the X WINDOW SYSTEM C Library and Protocol
Reference, and though it is a nice reference book,
It does not meet my needs as an introduction to
X programming. Does anyone have a more tutorial oriented
reference?
o The purpose of X at this sight is to help connect
vaxs with a Convex and suns as a top level interface
for some very large programs. Currently we have X running
on the Convex and the suns with DecWindows on order. I
now hear that DecWindows will not TCP but there are
several reference to decnet in the sources and in the
documentation. How well does decnet work with X? Other
than compiling with the decnet options on the suns and
adding the vaxs to the xhost tables is there anything
else required to get them to work together? Like special
device drivers? Hardware?
o Looking at the sources and the refrences to DECnet its
clear that the convex's COVUEnet is not directly compatable
with what ever machine the programer was writing for. Anyone
know what changes must be made for a convex? (The convex
can't open sockets with VMS but it does support "logical
links" which seems to be attached to /dev/ll)
o What is a the expected speed for line drawings through X.
I did a few test runs using a very simple loop and timed
1200 lines/sec which is very slow. It is very possible
that the way I opened the window and drew the lines was
at fault can I expect better performance once I get
a better hang of the code. (This was on a sun as the
server and a convex 210 running the client)
Please reply by mail.
Thank you.
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