mss+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Mark Sherman) (01/04/90)
To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Announcing Release 4 of the X Window System from MIT
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 90 16:59:31 -0500
From: jim@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jim Fulton)
The MIT X Consortium is proud to announce Release 4 of the X Window System,
Version 11. Highlights of this version include:
[much text edited out]
o new versions of Andrew, InterViews, and Xw toolkits
[more text edited out, "Andrew" includes the ODA materials as well]
The software in this release is not in the public domain, but is freely
available without restrictions. No license is required and there are no
royalties; vendors are actively encouraged to base products upon this software.
This release is available from a variety of sources, including:
o the Internet and UUCP sites listed below
o the MIT Software Distribution Center (address below)
o and a variety of consulting/mail-order firms
The software is organized into two main distributions: the core X Window System
software supported by the staff of the MIT X Consortium, and user- contributed
software that is provided (without support) as a public service. Sites that
have access to the Internet or UUCP can retrieve the release from the location
nearest them listed below. The indicated directories contain a README file
with further instructions and copies of the release notes.
Anonymous
Machine Internet FTP
Location Name Address Directory
-------- ------- -------- -------------
(1) West USA gatekeeper.dec.com 16.1.0.2 pub/X11/R4
Central USA mordred.cs.purdue.edu 128.10.2.2 pub/X11/R4
(2) Central USA giza.cis.ohio-state.edu 128.146.8.61 pub/X.V11R4
Southeast USA uunet.uu.net 192.48.96.2 X/R4
(3) Northeast USA crl.dec.com 192.58.206.2 pub/X11/R4
(4) UK Janet src.doc.ic.ac.uk 129.31.81.36 X.V11R4
UK niftp uk.ac.ic.doc.src <XV11R4>*
(5) Australia munnari.oz.au 128.250.1.21 X.V11/R4
Notes:
(1) The release is also available to UUCP neighbors of decwrl as
decwrl!~/pub/X11/R4/... and to DEC Easynet sites as DECWRL::"/pub/X11/R4".
The partition on which the anonymous ftp/uucp/dcp software is kept is
exported read-only as /archive for public access through NFS.
(2) The release is also available for general UUCP as follows:
L.sys (aka Systems) lines follow; the directory tree under
X.V11R4 will be accessible as osu-cis!~/X.V11R4/.
#
# Direct Trailblazer
#
osu-cis Any ACU 19200 1-614-292-5112 in:--in:--in: Uanon
#
# Micom port selector, at 1200, 2400, or 9600 bps.
# Replace ##'s below with 12, 24, or 96 (both speed and phone number).
#
osu-cis Any ACU ##00 1-614-292-31## "" \r\c Name? osu-cis nected \c GO
\d\r\d\r\d\r in:--in:--in: Uanon
(3) The release is available to DEC Easynet sites as CRL::"/pub/X11/R4".
(4) For now, the release is only available to UK users of Janet; other
European sites are asked to set up their own redistributions.
(5) Australian sites are strongly urged not to try to get the release from
the United States. "Fetchfile" may also be used to retrieve the release
from the same directory.
(oo) Avoid the temptation to get the release from expo.lcs.mit.edu, esp.
between the hours of 9am and 6pm. Connections to expo during those hours
will be subject to termination without warning.
If you are unable to retrieve the release yourself, a set of four 1600bpi tapes
in UNIX tar format plus printed versions of the major manuals and a copy of the
new Gettys, Newman, and Scheifler book "X Window System: C Library and Protocol
Reference" are available from the MIT Software Center for the following rates
(prices include shipping):
tapes,
manuals, manuals,
book book
---------- ----------
North America $125 $400
Everywhere Else $175 $500
To order, please send a letter and a check payable to MIT in US currency for
the appropriate amount to:
MIT Software Distribution Center
Technology Licensing Office
room E32-300
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
For ordering information, call the "X Ordering Hotline" at +1 (617) 258-8330.
Donna Converse, Jim Fulton, Michelle Leger,
Keith Packard, Chris Peterson, Bob Scheifler
X Consortium
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Ralph Swick
MIT Project Athena
Date: 3 Jan 90 23:23:04 GMT
From: rick@uunet.uu.net (Rick Adams)
Subject: Re: X11R4 Distribution; EXPO is the LEAST efficient place to
get the distribution.
To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
For those of you using or planning on using uunet.uu.net, please use
ns.uu.net 192.48.96.3
ns is a 3 cpu Pyramid MIServer that is currently doing NOTHING but
acting as an ftp server for X11R4.
uunet will continue to carry the X distribution, but right now it's
getting the living hell beat out of it, so it's to everyone's advantage
to use the faster, less loaded machine (ns.uu.net).
ns and uunet are on the same Ethernet which is connected to
SURANET via T-1 (currently sustaining over 700 kbps since 5pm!)
so there is no advantage to using uunet over ns and a big speed
difference from using the unloaded ns.
Thanks.
---rick
To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: size of R4
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 90 17:35:39 -0500
From: jim@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jim Fulton)
Here's the README file that can be ftp'ed from the various sites listed in the
previous announcement. The uncompressed size of each tape is roughly 35
megabytes, and compiling adds between 50-120% depending on your architecture.
* * * * *
Here is a roadmap to the R4 sources:
README this file
RELNOTES.PS R4 release notes in PostScript
RELNOTES.txt R4 release notes in plain text
RELNOTES.lpt R4 release notes in lpt format
R4notice R4 announcement (also where to get X)
ERRATA helpful hints
tape-1/ core software for X Window System (required)
tape-2/ contrib clients and core doc (recommended)
tape-3/ contrib libraries and other toolkits (optional)
tape-4/ contrib Andrew, games, etc. (optional)
The split pieces are all 512k (524288 bytes) long (except for the last one in
each directory) and must be transfered in image mode (use the ftp "binary"
and "mget" commands). If you are doing an "mget" you'll probably want to
restart ftp with the "-i" option to prevent it from asking you about every
file.
Each directory contains a CHECKSUMS file containing both BSD- and SYSV-style
checksums (generated with the "sum" command) and a FILES.Z file containing a
compressed listing of the files stored in that directory.
To extract the sources into another directory (e.g. /usr/local/src/R4/), make
sure you have LOTS of disk space and type the following in each of the
directories that you have copied over:
% cat *.?? | uncompress | (cd /usr/local/src/R4/; tar xvf -)
While you are waiting for it to finish, get lunch and read the release notes!
Donna Converse, Jim Fulton, Michelle Leger,
Keith Packard, Chris Peterson, Bob Scheifler
X Consortium
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Ralph Swick
MIT Project Athena
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