From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Consortium Draft Standard Available For Public Review: PEXlib
Date: 25 Jul 92 01:52:23 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 17:28:57 EDT
Message-Id: <9207242128.AA07734@expo.lcs.mit.edu>

An MIT X Consortium draft standard defining an Xlib-level interface to the
PEX protocol is now available for Public Review.   PEXlib is intended to be
the lowest-level interface to the PEX protocol, on which both higher-level
toolkits (such as PHIGS) and applications can be built.  PEXlib provides full
access to the PEX protocol, including immediate mode graphics.

The objective of this Public Review is to determine if the current draft is
acceptable as a Consortium standard.  Public Review can result in changes to
the draft standard.

Public Review of PEXlib is scheduled to end October 27, 1992.  The X
community is encouraged to review the draft and submit comments by
electronic mail to:
	public-review@expo.lcs.mit.edu
or by postal mail to:
	Bob Scheifler
	MIT X Consortium
	Laboratory for Computer Science
	545 Techology Square
	Cambridge MA 02139

Electronic mail is preferred.
Comments sent to other addresses are not guaranteed to be considered.

Commentors should take the review process seriously, and should:
	1. Identify objectionable functionality and wording in the document.
	2. Suggest specific alternative functionality and wording.
and most importantly:
	3. Provide a rationale for the suggested changes.

Commentors should also carefully distinguish between:
	1. Problems that they regard as intolerable and that must be corrected
	   before the specification becomes a standard.
	2. Aspects that they do not like but could live with for a few years
	   until a future revision of the standard.
	3. Additional functionality that they can live without in the current
	   standard but would like to see in a future revision.


The following compressed documents are available via anonymous ftp to
export.lcs.mit.edu in the directory /pub/DOCS/PEXlib/

PEXlib.doc.tar.Z	troff source, tar format
PEXlib.ps.tar.Z		PostScript, tar format


The source tar contains all macros and sources files for building the
document, table of contents and index.  The source tar also includes the
complete header files.

The PostScript tar includes two files: PEXlib.PS which is the main document
and table of contents, and PEXlib.ndx.PS which is the index.

The documents are also available in compressed, uuencoded form via the
archive server at xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu.  The following items are available,
by sending a message with the Subject: line of "send docs <itemname>"
and an empty message body:

PEXlib.uu.1		uuencoded PEXlib.doc.tar.Z, in 4 parts
PEXlib.uu.2
PEXlib.uu.3
PEXlib.uu.4
PEXlib.ps.uu.1		uuencoded PEXlib.ps.tar.Z, in 8 parts
PEXlib.ps.uu.2
PEXlib.ps.uu.3
PEXlib.ps.uu.4
PEXlib.ps.uu.5
PEXlib.ps.uu.6
PEXlib.ps.uu.7
PEXlib.ps.uu.8

For example, use "send docs PEXlib.uu.1" to retrieve the first part of
PEXlib.doc.tar.Z.  Send a separate message for each part you want.

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	path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
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	path bar!foo!frotz
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