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From: dbl@ics.com (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 3/6
Date: 11 Apr 1995 13:36:39 GMT
Organization: ICS
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Expires: Sun, 14 May 1995 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <3me0l7$qeq@ics.com>
Reply-To: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
Summary: useful information about the X Window System
Archive-name: x-faq/part3
Last-modified: 1995/04/10
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Subject: 53) Where can I find a dictionary server for xwebster?
Webster's still owns the copyright to the on-line copies of Webster's
Dictionary which are found at various (university) sites. After it became
aware that these sites were then acting as servers for other sites running
xwebster and gnuemacs-webster, it asked that server sites close off external
access.
[The NeXT machine apparently is also licensed to have the dictionary.
A Webster daemon for NeXT machines is available from
iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (129.79.254.192) in "pub/webster/NeXT-2.0".]
Unless you want to get a legal on-line copy yourself or can find a
site which can grant you access, you are probably out of luck.
However, if you are a legitimate site, you'll want to pick up the
latest xwebster, as-is on ftp.x.org:contrib/xwebster.tar.Z [10/91]; the file
xwebster.README includes discussions of the availability, illegality, and
non-availability of dictionary servers.
[courtesy steve@UMIACS.UMD.EDU (Steve Miller) and mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels
Mayer) 11/90]
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Subject: 54) TOPIC: OBTAINING X AND RELATED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
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Subject: 55) Is X public-domain software?
No. The X software is copyrighted by various institutions and is not
"public domain", which has a specific legal meaning. However, the X
distribution is available for free and can be redistributed without fee.
Contributed software, though, may be placed in the public domain by
individual authors.
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Subject: 56) How compatible are X11R3, R4, R5, R6? What changes are there?
The Release Notes for each release of X11 specify the changes from the
previous release. The X Consortium tries very hard to maintain compatibility
across releases. In the few places where incompatible changes were necessary,
details are given in the Release Notes. Each X11 distribution site on the
network also offers the Release Notes that go with the release they offer; the
file typically can be found at the top of the distribution tree.
[Stephen Gildea, 1/92]
Things that are incompatible in R6:
- R6 Xt requires R6 Xlib.
- R6 Xaw no longer has Clock, Logo, and Mailbox widgets.
- R6 Xt retains binary compatibility with R5 for all data
structures except WMShellPart. See section 13.4 of the Xt
specification for more details.
[Dave Wiggins (dpw@x.org)]
The comp.windows.x.intrinsics FAQ-Xt lists Xt differences among these
versions.
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Subject: 57)! What is Fresco? When is Fresco rumored to be available?
Fresco is a user-interface system specified in CORBA IDL. The sample
implementation from the X Consortium is implemented in C++. Fresco is
available with X11R6 ( Fresco doesn't require R6, but it does need the R6
imake to build), but as a work-in-progress. There is no schedule for a full
release version; the Consortium is still charting future directions.
Fresco is a fairly long-term effort in our [that is, of the X
Consortium] minds, in part due to the amount of work needed to
produce a complete next generation user interface system, and in part
due to the limited number of people working on it. We expect that
each subsequent release of Fresco will both deepen coverage in
previously existing areas like graphics, and broaden coverage to new
areas like GUI control objects, embedding, and transcription. What
order these things appear in, and the schedule for future releases,
is still somewhat up in the air.
- Matt Landau, 10/19/94
Fresco draws several design ideas from InterViews and will ultimately
incorporate much of the functionality of Xt and Xlib, and add some
significant new capabilities in the areas of structured graphics, device and
resolution independent drawing models, a standard object model (OMG CORBA)
and interface definition language (CORBA IDL), and application linking and
embedding.
There is a writeup on Fresco in the Proceedings of the 7th Annual X Technical
Conference, published in Issue 5 of the X Resource, O'Reilly and Associates,
ISBN 1-56592-020-1.
PostScript for Mark Linton's Xhibition94 tutorial notes is in
graphics/fresco/xhibition94.ps.Z on ftp.sgi.com.
[Information from Kaleb Keithley (kaleb@x.org) and Matt Landau (matt@x.org);
1/94; 4/94.]
There is a Fresco home page at http://www.faslab.com/fresco/HomePage.html.
Sources and binaries are available at ftp://ftp.faslab.com/pub/Fresco.
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Subject: 58) Does Fresco work with g++ 2.5.8?
No; g++ does not cope with the use of explicitly-scoped nested type names as
formal parameter types of return types for member functions. For example,
the following class definition will not compile with g++:
class Event {
public:
typedef void *Data;
Event::Data get_data(void);
int set_data(Event::Data new_data);
};
Cygnus is aware of this problem and claims it's fixed in the next release of
g++.
(from matt@x.org (Matt Landau))
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Subject: 59)! Where can I get X11R6 (source and/or binaries)?
Release 6 was made available to the public on May 2, 1994.
The X Consortium is making R6 available simultaneously on multiple ftp sites
around the world; the Consortium is also offering R6 on CD-ROM, QIC-150 tape,
and 8mm tape (tar format) and is distributing hardcopy documentation.
Information: X Consortium, R6 Sales Center, 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
02142-1301, USA.
You will need about 140Mb of disk space to hold all of the Core distribution.
PLEASE use a site that is close to you in the network.
Note: this list is better available through:
http://www.x.org/consortium/GettingX11R6.html
(or via ftp from ftp.x.org as GettingR6, or via "send R6 sales" to
xstuff@x.org)
North America anonymous FTP:
Location Address Directory
-------- ------- ---------
Cambridge, MA ftp.crl.research.digital.com
Digital Equipment Corp. [192.58.206.2] /pub/X11/R6
Cambridge Research Laboratory /pub/X11/contrib
Cambridge, MA ftp.x.org /pub/R6
X Consortium [198.112.44.100] /contrib
(ftp.crl.research.digital.com is a faster site for FTP)
Newton, MA ftp.marcam.com /R6
MARCAM Corporation [198.102.216.30] /R6/contrib
New York City, NY ftp.cs.columbia.edu /archives/X11R6/R6
Columbia University [128.59.26.5] /archives/X11R6/contrib
Computer Science Dept
Buffalo New York ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu /pub/R6
University at Buffalo [128.205.7.9] /pub/R6
Washington DC ftp.digex.net /pub/X11/R6
Digital Express Group, Inc. [128.219.128.109] /pub/X11/contrib
Aberdeen Maryland ftp.arl.mil /pub/X11/R6
Army Research Laboratory [138.18.1.158] /pub/X11/contrib
Falls Church, VA ftp.uu.net /systems/window-sys/X/R6
UUNET Technologies, Inc [192.48.96.9] /systems/window-sys/X/contrib
Durham, NC ftp.duke.edu /pub/X11R6
Duke University [152.3.102.3]
Oak Ridge, Tenn sws1.ctd.ornl.gov /unix/X11R6
Oak Ridge National Lab [128.219.128.109] /unix/X11R6/contrib
(Limited access host)
Ann Arbor, MI ftp.merit.edu /pub/dist/X/X11R6
Merit Network, Inc. [35.1.1.48]
West Lafayette, Indiana ftp.cs.purdue.edu /pub/X11/R6
Purdue University [128.10.2.1] /pub/X11/R6
Dept of Computer Sciences
Columbus, Ohio ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu /pub/X.V11R6/R6
The Ohio State University [128.146.8.52] /pub/X.V11R6/R6-contrib
Dept of Computer and Information Science
Albuquerque New Mexico ftp.khoros.unm.edu /usr/ftp/pub/dist/X/X11R6
Khoros Group UNM [198.59.155.28] /usr/ftp/pub/dist/X/X11
Palo Alto, California gatekeeper.dec.com /pub/X11/R6
Digital Equipment Corp [16.1.0.2] /pub/X11/contrib
Europe anonymous FTP:
Location Address Directory
-------- ------- ---------
Vienna, Austria ftp.Austria.EU.net /pub/x11/x11r6
EUnet Austria [192.92.138.34] /pub/x11/x11r6/contrib
Leuven, Belgium ftp.eunet.be /pub/R6
EUnet Belgium [192.92.130.1] /contrib
Zagreb, Croatia ftp.zel.etf.hr /pub/X11/R6
Faculty of Electrical [161.53.65.13] /pub/X11/contrib
Engineering, Dept of Electronics
Prague, Czech Republic ftp.eunet.cz /pub/x11/R6
EUnet Czechia [193.85.1.11] /pub/x11/R6/contrib
Copenhagen, Denmark ftp.denet.dk /pub/X11/X11R6
DENet [129.142.6.74] /pub/X11/contrib
Copenhagen, Denmark osiris.dknet.dk /pub/X11/R6
DKnet / EUnet Denmark [193.88.44.45] /pub/X11/contrib
Helsinki, Finland ftp.eunet.fi /X11R6/release
EUnet Finland [192.26.119.1] /X11R6/contrib
Espoo, Finland nic.funet.fi /pub/X11/X11R6
[192.52.71.41] /pub/X11/contrib
France (near Paris) ftp.inria.fr /X/X11R6
INRIA Rocquencourt [192.93.2.54] /X/contrib-R6
Paris, France ftp.ibp.fr /pub/X11/R6
Institut Blaise Pascal [132.227.60.2] /pub/X11/contrib
Dortmund, Germany ftp.germany.eu.net /pub/X11/XConsortium/pub/R6
EUnet Deutschland GmbH [192.76.144.75] /pub/X11/XConsortium/contrib
Paderborn, Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de /pub/X11/R6
University of Paderborn [131.234.2.32] /pub/X11/contrib
Budapest, Hungary sunserv.sztaki.hu /pub/X11R6
SZTAKI / EUnet Hungary [192.84.227.1] /pub/R6-contrib
Dublin, Ireland ftp.ieunet.ie /pub/R6
IEunet [192.111.39.3] /pub/R6/contrib
Milano, Italy ftp.dsi.unimi.it /pub/R6
DSI, U of Milan [149.132.2.45] /export
Milano, Italy ftp.iunet.it /X11/X11R6
IUnet NOC [192.106.1.6] /X11/contrib
Oslo, Norway ftp.eunet.no /pub/X11/R6
EUnet Norway [193.71.1.7] /pub/X11/contrib
Norway ftp.unit.no /pub/X11/R6
U. of Trondheim/SINTEF [129.241.1.97] /pub/X11/contrib
Warsaw, Poland ftp.icm.edu.pl /pub/X11/R6
ICM, Warsaw University [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX] /pub/X11/contrib
Lisbon, Portugal relay.puug.pt /pub/X11R6
PUUG [193.126.4.65] /pub/X11R6/contrib
Portuguese UNIX Users Group
Moscow, Russia ftp.kiae.su /x11/X11R6
RELCOM/EUnet, KIAE [144.206.136.10] /x11/X11R6/contrib
Lulea, Sweden ftp.luth.se /pub/X11/R6
Lulea University [130.240.18.2] /pub/X11/contrib
of Technology
Sweden ftp.sunet.se /pub/X11/R6
Swedish University [130.238.127.3] /pub/X11/contrib
Computer Network
Zurich, Switzerland ftp.eunet.ch /archive/software/X11R6
EUnet Switzerland [146.228.10.16] /archive/software/X
Zurich, Switzerland ftp.switch.ch /mirror/X11/R6
SWITCH - Swiss Academic & [130.59.1.40] /mirror/X11/contrib
Research Network
Amsterdam, The Netherlands ftp.EU.net /X11/R6
EUnet Europe [192.16.202.2] /X11/contrib
Amsterdam, The Netherlands ftp.NL.net /pub/windows/X/R6
NLnet [193.78.240.13] /pub/windows/X/contrib
Canterbury, Kent, UK ftp.britain.eu.net /pub/X11R6
EUnet GB [192.91.199.5] /pub/X11R6-contrib
London, UK src.doc.ic.ac.uk /packages/X11R6
SUNsite, Dept of Computing, [146.169.2.10] /packages/X11-contrib
East Asia anonymous FTP:
Location Address Directory
-------- ------- ---------
Hong Kong ftp.cs.cuhk.hk /pub/X11R6
Computer Science Dept [137.189.4.57] /pub/Xcontrib
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Taejon, Republic of Korea cair.kaist.ac.kr /pub/X11/R6
Center for Artificial [143.248.11.170] /pub/X11/contrib (not yet operational)
Inteligence Research, KAIST
Tokyo, Japan ftp.iij.ad.jp /pub/X/X11R6
Internet Initiative Japan [192.244.176.50] /pub/X/contrib
Fukuoka, Japan ftp.ec.kyushu-u.ac.jp /pub/X11R6
Kyushu University [133.5.10.12] /pub/contrib
Tokyo, Japan SunSITE.sut.ac.jp /pub/archives/X11/R6
Science University of Tokyo [133.31.30.7] /pub/archives/X11/R6contrib
Tokyo, Japan ftp.u-tokyo.ac.jp /pub/X11R6
The University of Tokyo [130.69.254.254] /pub/X11R6-contrib
Fujisawa, Japan sh.wide.ad.jp /X11R6
WIDE Project (Fujisawa) [133.4.11.11] /X11R6-contrib
Nara, Japan wnoc-nara-ss2.wide.ad.jp /pub/X11R6
WIDE Project (Nara) [133.4.23.2] /pub/X11R6-contrib
Tokyo, Japan ftp.inter.spin.ad.jp /pub/unix/R6
Roppongi, Minato-ku [165.76.8.4] /pub/unix/R6/contrib
Spin project
Taiwan NCTUCCCA.edu.tw /X/X11R6
Campus Computer [140.111.1.10] /X/contrib
Communication Assoc.
Australia anonymous FTP:
Location Address Directory
-------- ------- ---------
Melbourne, Australia archie.AU X11/R6
AARNet archive server [139.130.23.2] X11/contrib
Melbourne, Australia munnari.OZ.AU X.V11/R6
University of Melbourne [128.250.22.2] X.V11/contrib
The Free Software Foundation's "X11 Tapes" and "May 1994 Source Code CD-ROM"
contain X11R6. Email: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu; Voice: +1-617-876-3296;
Fax: +1-617-492-9057.
Anyone in Europe can get a copy of the X.V11R6 distribution, including the
core and contributed software and all official patches, free of charge. The
only requirement is to agree to return the tapes, or equivalent new tapes.
Available tape formats are QIC, TK, DAT and Exabyte cartridges. Contact:
Jamie Watson, Adasoft AG, Nesslerenweg 104, 3084 Wabern, Switzerland. Tel:
+41 31 961.35.70 or +41 62 61.41.21; Fax: +41 62 61.41.30; jw@adasoft.ch.
Binary distributions include:
X11R6.2 binaries for Sun3 are on ftp.cad.gatech.edu in pub/X11R6.
X11R6.5 binaries for SPARC SunOS 4.1.3 are accessible through
http://mistral.enst.fr/~pioch/X11/ (/pub/unix/X11/X11R6 on ftp.enst.fr).
Walnut Creek is producing a CD-ROM which should contain the new (2/95)
patches to X11R6 and a new release of XFree86.
Additional sites that mirror ftp.x.org include:
freebsd.cdrom.com
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Subject: 60) Where can I get X11R5 (source and/or binaries)?
Information about the Consortium's distribution of the sources on 6250bpi and
QIC-24 tape and its distribution of hardcopy of the documents is available
from Software Center, Technology Licensing Office, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 28 Carleton Street, Room E32-300, Cambridge MA 02142-1324,
phone: 617-258-8330.
You will need about 100Mb of disk space to hold all of Core and 140MB to hold
the Contrib software donated by individuals and companies.
PLEASE use a site that is close to you in the network.
Note that the RELEASE notes are generally available separately in the same
directory; the notes list changes from previous versions of X and offer a
guide to the distribution.
The following list was originally obtained from the X Consortium. As sites
have been found to have dropped their distributions, they have been removed.
North America anonymous FTP:
Maryland ftp.brl.mil pub/X11R5
128.63.16.158 (good for MILNET sites)
Massachusetts crl.dec.com pub/X11/R5
192.58.206.2
Massachusetts ftp.x.org pub/R5
198.112.44.100 (crl.dec.com is better)
Michigan merit.edu pub/X11R5
35.1.1.42
Missouri wuarchive.wustl.edu packages/X11R5
128.252.135.4
Montana ftp.cs.montana.edu pub/X.V11R5
192.31.215.202
New Mexico pprg.eece.unm.edu pub/dist/X11R5
129.24.24.10
New York azure.acsu.buffalo.edu pub/X11R5
128.205.7.6
Ohio ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu pub/X.V11R5
128.146.8.52
Ontario ftp.cs.utoronto.ca pub/X11R5
128.100.1.105
Washington DC x11r5-a.uu.net X/R5
192.48.96.12
Washington DC x11r5-b.uu.net X/R5
137.39.1.12
Europe/Middle East/Australia anonymous FTP:
Australia munnari.oz.au X.V11/R5
128.250.1.21
Denmark freja.diku.dk pub/X11R5
129.142.96.1
United Kingdom src.doc.ic.ac.uk graphics/X.V11R5
146.169.3.7 hpb.mcc.ac.uk pub/X11r5
130.88.200.7
Finland nic.funet.fi pub/X11/R5
128.214.6.100
France nuri.inria.fr X/X11R5
128.93.1.26
Germany ftp.germany.eu.net pub/X11/X11R5
192.76.144.129
Israel cs.huji.ac.il pub/X11R5
132.65.6.5
Italy ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it pub/X11R5
149.132.2.1
Netherlands archive.eu.net windows/X/R5
192.16.202.1
Norway ugle.unit.no pub/X11R5
129.241.1.97
Norway nac.no pub/X11R5
129.240.2.40
Switzerland nic.switch.ch software/X11R5
130.59.1.40
Japan anonymous FTP:
Kanagawa sh.wide.ad.jp X11R5
133.4.11.11
Kwansai ftp.ics.osaka-u.ac.jp X11R5
133.1.12.30
Kyushu wnoc-fuk.wide.ad.jp X11R5
133.4.14.3
TISN utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp X11R5
133.11.11.11
Tokyo kerr.iwanami.co.jp X11R5
133.235.128.1
Tokyo scslwide.sony.co.jp pub/X11R5
133.138.199.1
UUCP:
uunet for UUNET customers ~/X/R5 decwrl existing
neighbors only ~/pub/X11/R5
osu-cis ~/X.V11R5
(not online until ~ 9 Sept)
utai existing neighbors only ~/ftp/pub/X11R5
hp4nl Netherlands only ~uucp/pub/windows/X/R5
NFS:
Missouri wuarchive.wustl.edu /archive/packages/X11R5
128.252.135.4 mount point: /archive
AFS:
Pennsylvania /afs/grand.central.org/pub/X11R5
NIFTP (hhcp, cpf, fcp, ...):
United Kingdom uk.ac.ic.doc.src <X.V11R5>
00000510200001 user "guest"
anon FTAM:
United Kingdom 000005102000 (Janet) X.V11R5
146.169.3.7 (Internet) 204334504108 (IXI)
ACSNet:
Australia munnari.oz (fetchfile) X.V11/R5
Please fetch only one file at a time, after checking that a
copy is not available at a closer site.
[9/2/91; updated for contrib 10/91]
Anyone in Europe can get a copy of the X.V11R5 distribution, including the
core and contributed software and all official patches, free of charge. The
only requirement is to agree to return the tapes, or equivalent new tapes.
Only QIC and TK format cartridges can be provided. Contact: Jamie Watson,
Adasoft AG, Nesslerenweg 104, 3084 Wabern, Switzerland. Tel: +41 31 961.35.70
or +41 62 61.41.21; Fax: +41 62 61.41.30; jw@adasoft.ch.
UK sites can obtain X11 through the UKUUG Software Distribution Service, from
the Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, in several tape
formats. You may also obtain the source via Janet (and therefore PSS) using
Niftp (Host: uk.ac.ic.doc.src Name: guest Password: your_email_address).
Queries should be directed to Lee McLoughlin, 071-589-5111#5037, or to
info-server@doc.ic.ac.uk or ukuug-soft@uk.ac.ic.doc (send a Subject line of
"wanted"). Also offered are copies of comp.sources.x, the ftp.x.org contrib
and doc areas and most other announced freely distributable packages.
X11R5 and X11R4 source along with X11R5 contrib code, prebuilt X binaries for
major platforms (R5.21), and source code examples from O'Reilly's books is
available on an ISO-9660-format CD-ROM (with Rock Ridge extensions) from
O'Reilly & Associates. [6/92].
X11R5 source is available on ISO-9660-format CD-ROM for members of the Japan
Unix Society from Hiroaki Obata, obata@jrd.dec.com.
X11R5 source along with GNU source, the comp.sources.x archives, and SPARC
binaries is available on an ISO-9660-format CD-ROM from PDQ Software,
510-947-5996 (or Robert A. Bruce, rab@sprite.Berkeley.EDU).
X11R5 source is available from Automata Design Associates, +1 215-646-4894.
X11R5 source is part of the Free Software Foundation GNU CD-ROM (2nd Edition);
+1 617 876 3296.
Various users' groups (e.g. SUG) offer X sources cheaply, typically on
CD-ROM.
Source for the Andrew User Interface System 6.3.1 (9/94) are available on
ftp.andrew.cmu.edu in pub/AUIS and via tape from the Andrew Consortium,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave.,
Pittsburgh PA 15217. Information: info-andrew-requests@andrew.cmu.edu,
412-268-6710, fax 412-621-8081.
Binaries for X11R5, with shared libX11 and libXmu, for A/UX 2.0.1 are now
available from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/systems/aux/X11R5. Patches for
X11R5 compiled with gcc (but not shared libraries) are also available. [John
L. Coolidge (coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu, 10/91)]
A binary tree for the Next by Douglas Scott (doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu) is
on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu; it is missing the server, though.
Binaries for the Sun386i are in vernam.cs.uwm.edu:/sun386i.
Binaries for the HP-PA are on hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com (15.255.72.15).
Binaries for the HP-PA are on ftp.cae.wisc.edu.
Binaries of X11R5.26 for Sun3/SunOS4.1.1 systems are on ftp.cad.gatech.edu as
X11R5.pl26.slim.sun3.gcc258.tar.gz; the distribution includes also binaries of
common X tools.
Binaries of X11R5 for Solaris 2, packaged for installation with pkgadd, are in
camus.quintus.com:/pub/X11R5.
Source and binaries for HP-UX 8.*/9.0(S300/400/700/800) and Domain 10.4 (68K,
DN 10K) are available through the Interworks Users Group; contact Carol Relph
at 508-436-5046, fax 508-256-7169, or relph_c@apollo.hp.com.
Patches to X11R5 for Solaris 2.1 by Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) et al
are on ftp.x.org in contrib/{R5.SunOS5.patch.tar.Z,R5.SunOS5.patch.README}.
Patches to X11R5 for the Sun Type 5 keyboard and the keyboard NumLock are
available from William Bailey (dbgwab@arco.com).
X servers for color and monochrome NeXT machines is on foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
in /pub/X11R5-MouseX.tar.Z. Source patches are expected to be on orst and
sonata as X11R5-source.patch.tar.Z.
An X11R5 package for multi-lingual users is available (for SunOS 4.1.3 and
Solaris 2.1 and later) on ftp.waseda.ac.jp (133.9.1.32) in
ftp/pub3/X11R5/binaries/.
A full port of X11R5 is now available on the Atari platform (all machines
68000, 68030 & 68040) and is available at
http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~sjg/ftp/X11R5.html
Also:
Binaries are available from Unipalm (+44 954 211797, xtech@unipalm.co.uk),
probably for the Sun platforms.
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Subject: 61) Where can I get XDM's Wraphelp.c ?
X11R5/R6 supports a DES-based form of authorization. There are several
implementations of the file Wraphelp.c, which may be missing from your
distribution; one is on ftp.psy.uq.oz.au:/pub/X11R5.
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Subject: 62) Where can I get patches to X11?
The release of new public patches by the X Consortium is announced
in the comp.windows.x.announce newsgroup.
Patches themselves are available via ftp from ftp.x.org and from other
sites from which X11 is available. They are now also distributed through the
newsgroup comp.sources.x. Some source re-sellers may be including patches in
their source distributions of X11.
People without ftp access can use the xstuff mail server. Send to
xstuff@x.org the Subject line
send fixes #
where # is the name of the patch and is usually just the number of the patch.
There are 11 patches for X11R6 (3/95); here are a few complications:
1) fix-02 is in 5 parts; you need to request "2a", "2b", "2c", "2d",
and "2e" separately and concatenate them together before applying
2) fix-03 refers to a separate file of documentation, fix3docs.tar
3) fix-05 is in two parts, "5a" and "5b"
4) fix-09 needs a separate file, XHPKeymaps.uu
5) fix-10 needs a separate file, fix10fonts.Z, which is not available
via the xstuff mail daemon; you can apply just the basic patch in order to
avoid future failures
6) fix-11 needs separate files, XFree.uaa through XFree.uaz
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The xstuff server now has 26 patches for X11R5 [11/93]. There will be no more
patches to X11R5.
Here are a few complications:
1) fix 5 is in four parts; you need to request "5a", "5b", "5c" and
"5d" separately
2) the file sunGX.uu, which was part of an earlier patch, was
re-released with patch 7 [note: the file doesn't work with Solaris]
3) fix 8 is in two parts: "8a" and "8b"
4) fix 13 is in three parts: "13a", "13b", and "13c"
5) fix 16 is in two parts: "16a" and "16b"
6) fix 18 replaces the R5fix-test1 for the X Test Suite, which
previously was optional
7) fix 19 also needs PEXlib.tar.Z, which you can obtain from xstuff
by asking for "PEXlib.uu.[1234]".
8) fix 22 is in 9 parts, "22a" through "22i"
The MIT Software Center, in addition to offering the entire system on tape, is
offering a new tape with public patches 1-23. Tapes are available in 6250bpi
9-track reel-to-reel and QIC-24 cartridge formats. Information: +1 617 258
8330
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Subject: 63) What is the xstuff mail-archive?
The xstuff server is a mail-response program. That means that you mail
it a request, and it mails back the response. Any of the four possible
commands must be the first word on a line. The xstuff server reads your
entire message before it does anything, so you can have several different
commands in a single message (unless you ask for help). The xstuff server
treats the "Subject:" header line just like any other line of the message.
The archives are organized into a series of directories and
subdirectories. Each directory has an index, and each subdirectory has an
index. The top-level index gives you an overview of what is in the
subdirectories, and the index for each subdirectory tells you what is in it.
1) The command "help" or "send help" causes the server to send you a
more detailed version of this help file.
2) if your message contains a line whose first word is "index", then
the server will send you the top-level index of the contents of the archive.
If there are other words on that line that match the name of subdirectories,
then the indexes for those subdirectories are sent instead of the top-level
index. For example, you can say "send index fixes" (or "index fixes"). A
message that requests an index cannot request data.
3) if your message contains a line whose first word is "send", then
the xstuff server will send you the item(s) named on the rest of the
line. To name an item, you give its directory and its name. For example
send fixes 1 4 8a 8b 9
You may issue multiple send requests.
The xstuff server contains many safeguards to ensure that it is not
monopolized by people asking for large amounts of data. The mailer is set up
so that it will send no more than a fixed amount of data each day. If the work
queue contains more requests than the day's quota, then the unsent files will
not be processed until the next day. Whenever the mailer is run to send its
day's quota, it sends the requests out shortest-first.
4) Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting
return addresses. If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response. If
you happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like
path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu or path bar!foo!frotz in the body
of your message, and the daemon will use it.
The xstuff server itself can be reached at xstuff@x.org. If your
mailer deals in "!" notation, try sending to
{someplace}!mit-eddie!x.org!xstuff.
[based on information from the X Consortium, 8/89, 4/90.]
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Subject: 64)- Where can I get X11R4 (source and binaries)?
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Subject: 65) Where can I get OSF/Motif?
You can obtain either OSF/Motif source or binaries from a number of
vendors.
Motif 1.2.5 source is now available; it is based on X11R5. Motif 2.0 is
also available; it, too, is based on X11R5.
Motif 1.1 is based on the R4.18 Intrinsics and is finished [7/92] at
1.1.5.
A conformant Motif implementation not based on OSF-derived source is
being developed by fox@crisp.demon.co.uk (Paul Fox).
An OSF/Motif source license must be obtained from OSF before source can
be obtained from the Open Software Foundation or any value-added vendor for
any version. Call the Direct Channels Desk at OSF at 617-621-7300 for ordering
information.
Various hardware vendors produce developer's toolkits of binaries,
header files, and documentation; check your hardware vendor, particularly if
that vendor is an OSF member.
In addition, independent binary vendors produce Motif toolkits for
machines for which Motif is not supported by a vendor; the kits include varied
levels of bug-fixing and support for shared libraries and are based on widely
divergent version of Motif:
Quest Windows (408-496-1900) sells kits for Suns, as well;
IXI (+44 1223 518000, +1-408-427-7700) offers kits for Sun3 and Sun4.
NSL (+33 (1) 43 36 77 50; requests@nsl.fr) offers kits for the Sun 3
and Sun 4.
Bluestone Consulting, Inc. (609-727-4600) offers Motif 1.1.5 & 1.2 for
SunOS, and Motif 1.2 (X11R5) for Solaris 2.1 & 2.2.
ICS (617-621-0060) makes several binary kits, notably for Sun, DEC.
HP and DEC have announced support for Motif on Sun systems.
Unipalm (+44-954-211-797) currently offers for Sun systems a Motif
Development Kit including X11R4 and based on Motif 1.1.2. The US distributor is
Expert Object Corp (708-926-8500).
BIM ships Motif 1.1 binaries for Suns. Shared library support is
included. Contact Alain Vermeiren (av@sunbim.be) or Danny Backx (db@sunbim.be)
at +32(2)759.59.25 (Fax : +32(2)759.47.95) (Belgium).
SILOGIC (+33 61.57.95.95) ships Motif 1.2 and Motif 1.1 on Sun
machines.
S.I. Systems offers Motif 1.2 for Solaris 2.1; info: 1-800-755-8649 in
USA and Canada.
Metro Link, Inc. (+1 305-938-0283, sales@metrolink.com) ships X11R5
and Motif 1.2.2 (including a sharable libXm.a) for the 386/486 Unix market.
Motif 1.2.3 is also available for QNX, SunOS, Solaris Sparc, and Linux.
in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de) offers development and user
kits for SunOS and Solaris.
OSF/Motif 2.0 binaries for Linux are available from Soft*Star
(fax +39-11-746487, softstar@pol88a.polito.it).
LessTif will be a complete drop in replacement for OSF/Motif 1.2. It
is currently under development. The URL for information regarding LessTif,
and a link to the current snapshot, is:
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu:8000/hungry/microshaft/lesstif.html.
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Subject: 66) Does Motif work with X11R4? X11R5?
Motif 1.2 is based on X11R5.
Motif 1.1, available in source form from OSF as of August 1990, uses
the "vanilla" X11R4 Intrinsics, where "vanilla" means "with just a few
patches"; the file fix-osf which OSF distributes is obsoleted by the
Consortium's patches 15-17. The file fix-osf-1.1.1 distributed with the
1.1.1 version or its subsequent modification needs to be applied after fix-18,
though.
Motif 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 will work with X11R5 if X11R5 is compiled with
-DMOTIFBC; 1.1.4 and later should work with the vanilla R5, although there are
some known new geometry-management problems.
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Subject: 67) Where can I get toolkits implementing OPEN LOOK?
Sun's XView has a SunView-style API. Version 3.2 is available (7/93)
from xview.ucdavis.edu in /pub/XView/XView3.2 or ftp.x.org in
/contrib/xview3.2.
XView and X binaries for the Sun 386i ("roadrunner") are available for
ftp from svin01.win.tue.nl (131.155.70.70), directory pub/X11R4_386i.
Supported binaries of XView 2.0 or 3.0 include:
XView for non-Sun Platforms (domestic and selected international vendors).
Several are also available from Sun; contact your local sales office.
Amiga GfxBase, Inc. 1881 Ellwell Drive
(AmigaDOS) (408) 262-1469 Milpitas, CA 95035
Fax: (408) 262-8276
SGI
Sony (NEWS-OS)
IBM RS/6000
HP 9000
DECstation UniPress Software 2025 Lincoln Highway
(Ultrix) (908) 985-8000 Edison, NJ 08817
Fax: (908) 287-4929
UniPress Software, Ltd. PO Box 70
44-624-661-8850 Viking House
Fax: 44-624-663-453 Nelson Street
Douglas, Isle of Man
United Kingdom
DEC VAXstation TGV 603 Mission Street
(VMS) (800) TGV-3440 Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(408) 427-4366
Fax: (408) 427-4365
Unipalm Ltd. 145-147 St. Neots Road
44-0954-211797 Hardwick
Fax: 44-0954-211244 Cambridge CB3 7QJ
England
Intel 386 Quarterdeck Office 150 Pico Boulevard
(DOS) Systems Santa Monica, CA 90405
(213) 392-9851
Fax: (213) 399-3802
Intel 386 SunSoft Corporation 6601 Center Drive West
(Interactive 310-348-8649 Suite 700
UNIX and Los Angeles, CA 90045
SCO UNIX)
Stardent Scripps Institute Clinic MB-5
(Stellix OS Fax: (619) 554-4485 10666 N. Torrey Pines Road
and Titan OS) Include mailstop MB-5 La Jolla, CA 92057
By ftp: 192.42.82.8 in pub/binary/{Xview.README,XView.tar.Z}
AT&T's OPEN LOOK GUI 3.0 Xt-based toolkit is now generally available
[2/92]; contact 1-800-828-UNIX#544 for information. Binaries are produced
for SPARC systems by International Quest Corporation (408-988-8289). A version
of the toolkit is also produced under the name OLIT by Sun.
More recent versions of OLIT have been ported to IBM 6000 and DEC MIPS
by both UniPress and ICS. OLIT is also available for HP from Melillo Consulting
(908-873-0075). MJM (Somerset, NJ) makes OLIT 4.0 for HP 7xx series running
HPUX 8.0, DECstations, and RS/6000s [thanks to Joanne Newbauer,
jo@attunix.att.com, 908-522-6677.]
Sun is shipping OpenWindows 3.0; contact your local sales
representative for more details; the package includes toolkit binaries and
header files.
ParcPlace's (formerly Solbourne's) extensible C++-based Object
Interface Library, which supports run-time selection between Open Look or
Motif, is available from 303-678-4626. [5/92]
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Subject: 68) Where can I get other X sources? (including R5 modifications)
The MIT Software Center ships the X Test Suite on tape.
A multi-threaded version of Xlib based on X11R5 patch 12 is now
available for anonymous FTP from (new version 1/93):
- DEC on gatekeeper.dec.com (16.1.0.2) in /pub/X11/contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
- the Consortium on ftp.x.org in /contrib/mt-xlib-1.1
Note that this source code will not become the Xlib used in X11R6, although
the Consortium is planning to make Xlib thread-safe with that release.
HP has made available drivers to permit the building of the X11R5
sample server on the HP 9000 Series 700 workstations; the files are on
ftp.x.org in ~ftp/contrib/R5.HP.SRV. [8/92]
The Edinburgh University Computing Service and European X User Group
have created an on-line index of public domain X software. The index is
available through gopher and provides an index of the ftp.x.org/contrib
archive, the comp.sources.x archive and various X software found around the
internet. The service holds manual pages, README files , etc which can be
browsed through. A keyword search of the manual pages is also provided.
Information: xindex@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk.
User-contributed software is distributed through the newsgroup
comp.sources.x, moderated by Chris Olson (chris@imd.sterling.com); also check
that group for posting information.
Richard Hesketh (rlh2@ukc.ac.uk) has been creating a list of freely-
available X sources. The list is stored on ftp.x.org in contrib as
x-source-list.Z. It lists the main storage locations for the program and
international sites from which it may be ftp'ed.
The machine ftp.x.org has a great deal of user-contributed software in
the contrib/ directory; a good deal of it is present in current or earlier
versions on the X11R3, X11R4, and X11R5 contrib tapes. There are also
directories for fixes to contrib software. The file on ftp.x.org in
contrib/0ftpxorg.dir.Z is a quick overall index of the software in that area,
provided by Daniel Lewart (d-lewart@uiuc.edu).
These sites used to and may still mirror ftp.x.org and are of particular
use for Australasia: Anonymous ftp: ftp.Adelaide.EDU.AU; ACSnet Fetchfile:
sirius.ua.oz.
The material on giza.cis.ohio-state.edu, which tends to duplicate
the ftp.x.org archives, is also available via anonymous UUCP from osu-cis, at
TB+ and V.32 speeds. Write to uucp@cis.ohio-state.edu (same as osu-cis!uucp)
for instructions. [the archive is now maintained by Karl Kleinpaste]
A new west-coast UUCP X11 Archive is administered by Mark Snitily
(mark@zok.uucp) and contains the full X11 distribution, the XTEST
distribution, an entire archive of comp.sources.x and other goodies.
The machine zok has a TB+ modem which will connect to 19.2K, 2400,
1200 baud (in that order). The anonymous UUCP account is UXarch with password
Xgoodies. The modem's phone number is 408-996-8285.
A sample Systems (or L.sys) entry might be:
zok Any ACU 19200 4089968285 in:--in: UXarch word: Xgoodies
To get a current listing of the files that are available, download
the file "/usrX/ls-lR.Z".
A full subject index of the comp.sources.x files is available in the
file "/usrX/comp.sources.x/INDEX".
The machine has just the one modem, so please do not fetch large
amounts of data at one sitting.
[courtesy Mark Snitily, 2/90]
In addition, UUNET Source Archives (703-876-5050) tracks comp.sources.x and
provides 800MB+ of compressed programs on 6250 bpi tapes or 1/4" tapes. It
also mirrors ftp.x.org/contrib in its packages/X directory.
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"Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday
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