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From: wman@ZTIVAX.ZFE.SIEMENS.DE (Dr. Andreas Wnuk)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: Re: Wcl 2.03 is Now Available
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:31:07 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Siemens AG, Munich, W-Germany

Ooops!  forgot to say WHERE to get it!

anonymous ftp from:

export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12) contrib/Wcl-2.3.tar.Z

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David E. Smyth                  David.Smyth@ap.mchp.sni.de
Object/X Researcher             AP 154, Carl-Wery-Str 22, Munich 83 Germany
        Research Grant provided by Esprit Investments Ltd, 
        major sponsor Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
From: clarke@Eng.Sun.COM (Kevin Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: X Performance Characterization group
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:59:51 GMT
Distribution: inet


	Parties interested in defining the future of X server benchmarking
	are invited to participate in the X Performance Characterization
	group. 

	One of the goals of the XPC is to use application X protocol requests
	to measure a server's performance.

	To become involved and stay informed of this effort send mail to
	xperfchar-request@Sun.COM.


	Thanks,

	Kevin Clarke
From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: X11R5 public fixes #18 and #19 now available on export
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:25:21 GMT
Distribution: inet

Patches for a variety of problems in R5 are now available via anonymous ftp
on export.lcs.mit.edu, and the xstuff mail archive server on expo.lcs.mit.edu.

Fixes are available via anonymous ftp to export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12),
in the directory /pub/R5/fixes/.  The files for the new fixes are "fix-18",
"fix-19", and "PEXlib.tar.Z".  PEXlib.tar.Z is part of fix #19.  Instructions
for applying the fixes are included in the files.  Fixes usually propagate
to other distribution sites as well, so it may pay to check at a nearer
site first.

WARNING:
Fix #18 was previously released as an optional patch, in support of the
X Test Suite, and was labeled "Release 5 XTEST Public Patch" (the file on
expo was "/pub/XTEST/R5fix-xtest-1").  If you have already applied that patch,
do not try to apply fix-18!  Proceed instead to apply fix-19.

For those without ftp access, individual fixes can be obtained by mail by
sending a message to xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.11).  In the usual
case, the message should have a subject line and no body, or a single-line
body and no subject.  For example, make the line:
	send fixes 18
to get fix #18, and
	send fixes 19
to get fix #19.  To obtain PEXlib.tar.Z, you need to request the individual
parts "PEXlib.uu.1", "PEXlib.uu.2", "PEXlib.uu.3", and "PEXlib.uu.4", then
concatenate them together to create a file "PEXlib.uu" and then do
	uudecode PEXlib.uu
to produce "PEXlib.tar.Z".

To get a summary of all fixes, make the line:
	index fixes
If you need help, make the line:
	help
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 zot!gzork!me@uunet.uu.net
in the body of your message, and the daemon will use it.


Brief notes on what patch 18 provides:

xtest: add implementation of XTEST extension

Brief notes on what patch 19 provides:

PEXlib: add implementation of PEXlib, a new X Consortium standard
Xlib: improve extension error reporting
From: nancyf@SUG.ORG (Nancy Frishberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: Tutorial (12/7, San Jose) - Integrating C Code with Xt Widgets (Sun User Group Conference)
Keywords: Xt widgets Xview OpenLook GUI tutorial seminar
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:24:04 GMT
Distribution: inet

If you're interested in integrating existing C code with OpenLook GUI,
plan to be at the Sun User Group Conference (San Jose Convention
Center) on Monday, December 7, 1992. The Conference and Exhibition
extends through Thursday.

In the all-day tutorial "Integrating C Code and Xt Widgets", Craig
Rudlin, M.D. (Medical Software and Computer Systems) takes a
straightforward illustrative program to demonstrate the various
techniques, problems, and challenges the programmer faces when
employing XView toolkit.  This tutorial focuses on the interplay
between the XView toolkit and the source code.  Participants should
have experience in C programming and a basic understanding of the
XView toolkit.

SPECIAL OFFER: 5 full conference registrations (each includes a day of
any tutorial) for the price of 4 when preregistering with a single
payment.

Other full-day tutorials:

- Advanced Unix Security (Matt Bishop, Dartmouth College)
- Preparing for Disaster (a.m. - Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates),
  plus, Why have Computer Security? (p.m. - Bob Baldwin, Tandem Computers)
- Sun Network Debugging (Smoot Carl-Mitchell, Texas Internet Consulting)
- Topics in Perl (Tom Christiansen, Convex Computer Corporation)	
- Programming in POSIX (Jeffrey S. Haemer, Canary Software)	
- UNIX Programming Tools (Kenneth Ingham, consultant)
- The Internet and its Protocols (William LeFebvre, Northwestern University)
- Introduction to UNIX System Administration (Dinah McNutt, Tivoli Systems)

If you just want to go to the exhibits, ask for a free show-only pass.

To get more information by email about these tutorials, the technical
program, or exhibits at the Sun User Group conference, send requests
to sugshow@sug.org .

You will receive the full tutorials and program description with
registration information.  Or call 1-800/727-EXPO.  (Outside the U.S.,
use 512/331-7761 (voice) or 512/331-3950 (FAX).)  

-- 
Nancy Frishberg, Sun User Group.
From: envbvs@EPB11.LBL.GOV (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: xfig 2.1.6 available on export
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:21:42 GMT
Distribution: inet

Well, it has only been about a week since I released xfig 2.1.5, but there
were some pretty major bugs so I have made version 2.1.6 available.

Transfig has also been updated because of its own bugs so I have posted
an announcement for it separately.

Here is the announcement:

xfig 2.1.6 is available on export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/R5fixes/xfig-patches/
xfig.2.1.6.tar.Z.  Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

There is also an incremental patch file to convert from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6.  This
is in the file /contrib/R5fixes/xfig-patches/2.1.5.to.2.1.6.Z.  You may use
the 'patch' program to automatically apply the changes to your 2.1.5 release.

You also need to get TransFig version 2.1.6.  TransFig contains the post-
processor needed by xfig to convert fig files to one of several output formats,
such as PostScript, pic, LaTeX etc.  The TransFig package is in the file
/contrib/transfig.2.1.6.tar.Z.

Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
interactively in an X window.  The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).

Following is a description of the CHANGES for 2.1.6.

Patchlevel 6
Changes to Patchlevel 5:

BUG FIXES:

o typo in man pages with menu item "Textyl \special commands" in export menu
o action changed from "cancel" to "dismiss" for print menu accelerator
o bug in Intrinsics? on Sun Monochrome prevented side ruler from scrolling
o was using ellipse routine to draw circles - was choppy for small circles
o cast comparison function argument to qsort
o rotated ellipses don't become coarse as they are zoomed
From: envbvs@EPB11.LBL.GOV (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: Transfig 2.1.6 available on export
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:22:11 GMT
Distribution: inet

Well, it has only been about a week since I released TransFig 2.1.5, but there
were some pretty major bugs so I have made version 2.1.6 available.

Here is the announcement:

TransFig 2.1.6 is available on export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/transfig.2.1.6.tar.Z.
Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

>>> It is important for users of xfig 2.1.6 to get this latest version 
>>>    of TransFig.

TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics
which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide
variety of environments.

The transfig directory contains the source for the transfig command
which generates a Makefile which translates Fig code to various graphics
description languages using the fig2dev program.  In previous releases,
this command was implemented as a shell script.

The fig2dev directory contains a general program for translating from
Fig code to other graphics desciption languages.  The dev subdirectory
contains a library of output drivers used by fig2dev.

Drivers currently exist for the following graphics langauges:
(E)EPIC macros, LaTeX picture environment, PIC, PiCTeX, PostScript, and TeXtyl.
Fig2dev can be configured with a subset of these drivers

I have taken over the maintenance of TransFig from Micah Beck so please send any
bug notices, fixes, contributions etc to me at bvsmith@lbl.gov.

Here are the CHANGES from 2.1.5:

o Courier-BoldItalic changed to Courier-BoldOblique for PostScript fonts
o "if" statement replaces copysign() call since some machines don't have it
o some backslashes ('\') corrected in printf statements in transfig/mkfile.c and
	fig2dev/iso2tex.c
o changed header for postscript files from "%!" to "%!PS-Adobe-2.0" when using
	-P (showpage) option and "%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF" otherwise (Encapsulated)
o corrupt transfig/Imakefile and typo (SCRS instead of SRCS)
o some variables (cur_thickness and coord_system) were multiply defined in 
	various drivers in fig2dev/dev - made those static


- Brian V. Smith
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: NACEB%EMIS2.DECnet@gw1.hanscom.af.MIL ("EMIS2: :NACEB")
Subject: Arrowheads
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:28:00 GMT

                          E L E C T R O N I C   M A I L
                     (DDN Host Address:  GW1.HANSCOM.AF.MIL)

                                        Date:      20-Nov-1992 12:28
                                        From:      Capt William A. Nace 
                                        Username:  NACEB 
                                        Dept:      ESC/AVSF
                                        Tel No:    377-2422

TO:  _WINS%                               ( _DDN[XPERT@EXPORT.LCS.MIT.EDU] )


Subject: Arrowheads


  Hey there!
  Does anyone have a routine laying around in their kit of many tricks to
draw arrowheads on the end of lines?  I've been experimenting for a few
hours, and end up with fairly ugly things that vaguely resemble arrowheads.
  I would appreciate it if somebody could send me some code, or point me
towards a package that would have some.

  I'm writing in C, but a good algorithm is worthwhile in any language.

  Thanks much,
  Bill Nace

"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
                        -- Douglas Adams, Hitchiker's Guide
Disclaimer>> My employer thinks I'm at lunch.



Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: eyring@cc.utah.edu
Subject: Rotating an X-terminal 90 degrees. Server mmod???
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 18 Nov 92 04:20:15 MDT

Rotating an X-terminal 90 degrees.
 
I have a customer that wants to mount their
X-terminals rotated 90 degrees (portrait style
instead of landscape).  Radius (I think) has a
monitor which can be rotated by the user, but
it's only for the macintosh. (Not an X-terminal).
 
I am wondering what modifications (hardware/software)
would it take to accomplish this with an off-the-shelf
landscape style monitor?  Is this a mod to the server code?
 
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
-- 
>Bob Witmer
>Eyring Corp., Flight Simulation Div.
>Salt Lake City, Utah
>eyring@cc.utah.edu
From: chien@ece.arizona.edu (Lien-Pharn Chien)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: To set the position for top widget
Keywords: Xlib, X Toolkit
Date: 17 Nov 92 07:20:26 GMT
Reply-To: chien@ece.arizona.edu (Lien-Pharn Chien)
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hello,

       I'm just a X11 programming starter. The current problem I'm facing
       is,

          How can I set a top widget window on a user-defined position ?
      
       I have tried to use XSetSizeHints in my program written in X Toolkit
       functions but this caused :

                 X Error: BadWindow
                   Request Major code 18 ()
                   Request Minor code 0
                   ...

       Thanks in advance.

Lien-Pharn Chien.

e-mail : chien@ece.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: XFree support for ATI Ultra Pro?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:01:22 GMT


In article <1992Nov19.193044.26421@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>In article <BxyysH.B66@ns1.nodak.edu> grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen) writes:
>> 
>> The XFree FAQ says that the ATI Ultra (8514a) card is *not* supported
>> in XFree86 yet I am certain that I have seen references to it by
>> people who are successfully using it (Gateway machines). Can anyone
>> confirm or deny this?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> -- 
>> Johannes Grosen
>> ISC System Administrator
>> grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
>
>XFree86 does NOT support ATI Ultra (i.e. 8514) or S3.  There are people
>working on X servers for those boards, under 386BSD and Linux.  But this
>work is not part of XFree86; in fact, it's not even based on XFree86 (they
>started with the stock X11R5 ports to those OSs).  Someone may wind up
>porting those to XFree86, but we are not working on it ourselves.
>
>--
>David Wexelblat <dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com>  (908) 957-5871
>AT&T Bell Laboratories, 200 Laurel Ave - 4B-421, Middletown, NJ  07748
>
>"The meaning of life?  That's simple.  Try to be happy, try not to hurt
> other people, and hope to fall in love."  -- Mallory Keaton

I am one those people working on S3, 8514/a, and ATI Ultra under 386bsd.
XBSD8514 works with 8514/a and ATI Ultra in 8514/a mode. So far
under 386bsd there has been no problems reported with the 8514/a server,
except for a minor bug of the mouse buttons being switched.
However my support is limited for the 8514/a because I don't own
an 8514/a card nor an ATI Ultra card. The reason why it works is
because my first realse of XS3 was very similar to the 8514/a
server.

XS3 is a server based on the 8514/a server but modified to work with 
S3's chipset 911/924. XS3 supports the hardware cursor available on
the S3 chipsets. The server works on all S3 cards which use a 
non- programmable clock synthetizers. Known major brand cards known
to work with XS3 are: Orchid Farenheit 1280, Actix GraphicEngine and
STB Wind/X. Known window managers to work with XS3 are Motif, 
olwm, gwm, and twm. Additionally, all XFree86 clients work with
XS3. 

The reason that I started from the stock X11R5 is that most of the
XFree86 work is related to supporting non-accelarated graphic cards
such as the et4000. Since I use hardware implemented bitblt, 
line, rectangle and fill functionality, the vga speed-ups were
not needed. The latest released XS3 server is  about 6 times faster
than XFree86 and about twice as fast as Sun Workstation IPC 
without a GX.

Currently, I am working on supporting S3's 801 chipset which has
an overall performance improvement of %50. When I am done we
should have a 60k+ xstones server, and that is a conservative
figure.

XS3 and the 8514/a servers are also available for Linux.


Binaries and patches for all mentioned servers are available
at sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming.


Enjoy,
Amancio Hasty
Home: 415-595-3046
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Conference in Boston ?
From: mohan@tulip.cse.utoledo.edu (Mohan Pakkurti)
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:31:05 EST


Hi,
can someone send me info regarding the X conference in Boston .
I missed the post in comp.windows.x.announce

Thanks a lot
:) --mohan

-- 
===============================================================================
+ Mohanakrishna Pakkurti            + mohan@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu           +
+ HOME: 2239 University Hills Blvd #204, Toledo OH 43606. Phone:(419)536-9073 +
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tma@encore.com (Thanh Ma)
Subject: Wcl 2.0.3 build errors
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:51:44 GMT
Keywords: wcl, x, motif

After making some changes in Wcl.tmpl, I tried to compile Wcl 2.0.3 on my
PC-386 running ESIX svr4.0.4 but got the following errors:

.
.
.

cleaning in ./Xmp...
        rm -f libXmp.so.2.3
        rm -f *.CKP *.ln *.BAK *.bak *.o core errs ,* *~ *.a *.a.Z .emacs_* tags
 TAGS make.log MakeOut \#*
cleaning in ./Mri...
        rm -f Mri.Z
        rm -f Mri
        rm -f MRi DemoAll Hello Goodbye Menubar OptMenu Dialogs Traversal  SetVa
l ListRC ListTable Form Periodic  PerTem PT_ColumnLabel PT_DisplayBox  Popup FSB
 Modal TableDialog AppShells Shells
        rm -f Demo
        rm -f Test.Z
        rm -f Test
        rm -f Test Test.o TEST Wc Wc2 WcAll WcRem WcLo WcSetVal WcMethods
        rm -f *.CKP *.ln *.BAK *.bak *.o core errs ,* *~ *.a *.a.Z .emacs_* tags
 TAGS make.log MakeOut \#*
        make - includes
including in ./Wc...
        /bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/mkdirhier.sh .././X11/Wc
/usr/bin/X11/mkdirhier.sh: /usr/bin/X11/mkdirhier.sh: cannot open
			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
*** Error code 1 (bu21)


What should I do ? Try Make[12].svr4 instead ?
Please help!

Thanh

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Subject: merging resource databases
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:21:47 GMT

(The original Subject line was "Missing subject header".  Normally I
don't change Subject lines, no matter how silly, in deference to other
users of nn.  But there are limits.)

    [I use XrmMergeDatabase and then smash dpy->db]
           ... since I need to load some resource values from a file used to
    specify some widget resources, such as color and fonts.  These resource
    files are used by a number of clients and to avoid duplicating the values
    in each client's system app-defaults file, they are placed in these files
    and each client loads them itself ...


I'm glad my column in "The X Resource" got at least one person thinking
about their code :-)

In R5 you can use #include in your app-defaults files to point at
these common resources.  Then your client code doesn't need to worry
about the databases at all.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: marc@betelgeuse.Canada.Sun.COM (Marc St-Hilaire Canadian Dev. Ctr - Montreal)
Subject: Wanted: Post-it notes
Reply-To: marc@betelgeuse.Canada.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:29:23 GMT

Hi,
	Would someone know of an X application that creates windows with arbitrary
text in them like post-it notes?

	
		Marc St-Hilaire (marc.st-hilaire@canada.sun.com)
From: dick@ahold.nl (Dick Heijne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: HELP: can't log in to X
Summary: xdm passwd
Keywords: help, login
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:16:13 GMT
Organization: Ahold NV, Zaandam, Netherlands, EEC

In article <1992Nov12.171857.20662@uts.cc.wayne.edu>, tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson) writes:
> First, are you running xdm? Assuming YES, does the user get as far as a 
> Login/Password screen? Also assuming YES, have the user hit F1 (assuming
> <again> that that is the Key you set up to override normal X-login). This
> should (if everything worked to this point) create a X-term screen on the
> x-terminal. 

I missed the previous part of the discussion, but be aware that current
versions of xdm don't know about the SysVR4 new password mechanism with
the /etc/shadow file. It only looks at the /etc/passwd file (that is, in
all implementations we have around here, including X11R5 on Sun Solaris2,
Dell Unix, NCR3000/SysVR4 etc).
This can be tested and solved by removing the '+' entry from the /etc/passwd
file and replace it by the password as it is set in the /etc/shadow file.
This '+' entry is just a dummy entry, so everything will keep working.

Dick.

-- 
+==============================Ahold NV===============================+
| Room 146 , Ankersmidplein 2, 1506 CK Zaandam,  The Netherlands, EEC |
| Dick.Heijne@ccsds.ahold.nl - Tel: +31 75 592151, Fax: +31 75 313030 |
+=====================================================================+
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers
From: holen@netcom.com (Victor Holen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: SUIT experiences wanted!
Date: 18 Nov 92 09:22:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.1992Nov18.092226.22435
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <> Marcus SCHNELL writes:
>I would like to repeat my call for anyone who as used the SUIT
>interface builder to contact me for possibme information
>exchange.
>
>There must be somebody out there who was done some development
>using SUIT.
>
>If you have some experience with SUIT, PLEASE contact me.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Marcus
>
>*****************************************
>*    Marcus Schnell                     *
>*    International Institute for        *
>*    Applied Systems Analysis           *
>*    A-2361 Laxenburg                   *
>*    AUSTRIA                            *
>*    Phone   : (+43 2236) 715 21 *487   *
>*    FAX     : (+43 2236) 731 48        *
>*    marcus@iiasa.ac.at                 *
>*****************************************
>

   And if somebody had compared it to XVT, it would also be most
interestng.
Thanks.
-- 
 e-mail:   holen@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: marvin@vitec.com (Kyle Marvin)
Subject: XStones Benchmark Sources
Organization: VITec
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:29:43 GMT

I'm looking for an ftp site for the X benchmark program (xbench?) which
generates the XStones performance rating for an X server.  Yes, I realize
x11perf is much better but I have my reasons...

Please send e-mail to marvin@vitec.com or uunet!vitec!marvin.

Thanks in advance,

Kyle Marvin

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: isc30092@nusunix1.nus.sg (CHOO GING YANG)
Subject: C++ or Motif or X ?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 06:38:54 GMT

hi netters ....

	I encountered a very strange error recently.

	I ran into a runtime error when I was on a Silicon Graphics Indigo 
	using C++ 2.1.1, X11R4 and Motif.  After much tracing, I discovered 
	the Motif "XmStringCreateSimple" routine was giving the segmentation 
	fault message.

	I later ported the SAME program over to a Sun Sparc 2 using C++ 2.1, 
	X11R5 and Motif. it ran smoothly.  Anybody out there encounter any 
	similar problem?  

cgy@kris.iscs.nus.sg
From: dany@othello.pencom.com (Dany Guindi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Drag and Drop
Keywords: Motif, OL, DnD, MoOLIT
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:40:40 GMT
Reply-To: dany@pencom.com
Organization: Pencom Software

Has anyone handled the problem of having multiple Drag and Drop implementations  
across your desktop and applications? There seem to be two specs implemented,  
the one for OL (which is used by MoOLIT, OLIT, etc), and the one for Motif 1.2.

Unfortunately, in our networked world, we are likely to see apps from a variety  
of sources running on our desktop, and since the DnD implementations are  
different, it likely will not work across all apps.

If no one has handled this, I would be interested in hearing discussions on  
different possible solutions!

--dany guindi