From: steinber@machtnix.ert.rwth-aachen.de (Dirk Steinberg H tenhagen)
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Subject: [comp.os.linux] X386-1.2E-1.0.1 server binary (for hackers only)
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Hi there,

I just uploaded

	Lucid GNU Emacs 19.2 for Linux
	X386-1.2E-1.0.1 server binary

to

	ftp.dfv.rwth-aachen.de:		/incoming/Linux
	ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de: 	/tmp/Linux

and am presently uploading that stuff to tsx-11, funic and reggae as well.
It might take some time until the file show up there, since it's 6.6 MB :-)

Have fun!
	Dirk

Dirk Steinberg
dirkst@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

**** X386-1.2E.README ****

This is a dump of the X server binary that I work with.
It corresponds to MIT pl 14 + X386-1.2E-1.0.1 patches.
This is NOT the very newest stuff you can get (pl16/1.0.2).

I just put this out because there was a request for a newer
X than 1.1 and X 2.0 seems to take some time...

So, before you get this, think twice! This is *NOT* intended
to be a 'release' and is not 'official' in any sense. I will
also not support this, I'll probably switch to the official
X 2.0 when orst releases it.

The server is linked shared with an old version of gcc-2.2.2d;
the libs are included, but I still is not a nice thing.
If you have a version of /lib/libc.2.2.2d, you will have to
replace that with the included one, BUT ANY BINARIES LINKED
WITH YOUR COPY OF /lib/libc.2.2.2d WILL BREAK.
This is not a problem if you have the official release of
gcc-2.2.2d, since the libs are now called /lib/libc.so.*.

The server was compiled with '-O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -m486'
but should work on any 386 as well. All extensions except
PEX are compiled in. That is SHAPE, MULTIBUF, compressed font
and Type1 font support. Compressed font support means that you
can just 'compress -v *.pcf' in your font directory; this
saves a lot of disk space, but it also takes longer to load a 
font--doesn't matter for me, 'cause I got a fast machine.
You need to make a new font dir with the included mkfontdir.

I have used this server for some weeks now and it seems to be
OK; I just noticed that sometimes it grows to some MB and never
shrinks again. I guess that this is due to some clients not
deallocating resources (pixmaps or whatever, I don't know too
much about the inner workings of the server) before they exit.

The server works fine for me, but your mileage may vary :-)

I strongly recommend that you get the color xterm from rutgers.edu
and set the 'xterm*noScroll: true' resource--it makes such a big
difference. Also, you should really get olvwm.
Take these three things together (new server, xterm, olvwm) and
you have a really nice and fast environment.

I used freeze instead of compress on the tar file because it makes
it much smaller (544K vs. 752K, ~ 30% smaller). The binary is
freeze_Linux and requires /lib/libc.2.2.2. See the lemacs
(Lucid GNU Emacs 19.2) README.

Enjoy!

	Dirk

Dirk Steinberg
dirkst@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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