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From: pnguyen@rcsuna.ph.gmr.com (Peter Nguyen FL/21)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Mounting a DOS Drive off of an X-term
Keywords: DOS Xterm X Terminal
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:31:18 GMT
Reply-To: pnguyen@rcsuna.ph.gmr.com (Peter Nguyen FL/21)
Organization: GM Research, Warren, Mi

To all Netters,
I have this impossible plan that I would like to implement.  At our work place, we have some 
X terminals that tapped into an HP 300 host.  Currently, I can bring data on the UNIX platform
to the MS-DOS platform via ftp and/or nfs.  My "impossible" plan is to find a 3.5 floppy drive
that I can hook to one of the X terminal, mount it so that it look like one of the disk, and 
save text data to it.  Is there such a hardware in the market ?  I would consider any 
alternative plan that is similar to this scheme.	
Thanks,	
Peter Nguyen
Electronic Data Systems
email: pnguyen@rcsuna.gmr.com


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
Subject: X Windows with MS-Windows 3.1
Organization: Tower Technology, Sydney
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 04:10:35 GMT

I am after an X Windows prototyping development environment to run
alongside MS-Windows on a 486.
Given that MS-Windows 3.1 is not multi-tasking, is it possible to
run any form of Xlib (and Xt?) that directly links with the "server" in
some form to achieve this?

I have the list of available X-Servers for MS-windows and others posted
to this group (which is excellent), but none imply this is possible - is
it at least technically possible?

The alternatives I have come up with include: 
- Run OS/2 and IBMs X-Server (since OS/2 is multi-tasking, I should
be able to run the server on the same machine).
- Run some form of UNIX, and XFree86 (I will then probably also need
to buy a tape drive to install/backup).
- Run X for DESQview with the server and the client programs on the
same machine.
- Wait for NT's official release and hope I get X support somehow.

None of these are particularly attractive to me, but I would probably
go with OS/2 if there is no alternative under MS-Windows which would
enable me to develop and test X-Windows applications.

Any help would be appreciated [please E-mail this group gets a lot of
traffic].

John MacLean.
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From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is there any way to re-direct audio output from host A to host B?
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:38:03 GMT
	<1992Oct6.035351.12141@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
	<izeek.718622934@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Organization: DI-LIA -- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
In-reply-to: izeek@techunix.technion.ac.il's message of 9 Oct 92 09:28:54 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 681b0d806bdbbd9ca241c634e52c52fa

In article <izeek.718622934@techunix.technion.ac.il>
izeek@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ilan Aisic) writes:

   Well, this is not exactly an answer to the question however, at
   least on the Sun, anyone that can "rlogin" to your host may take
   control of your sound device (/dev/audio and /dev/audioctl) and
   sound whatever he/she wants on your speaker.  Moreover, if you have
   a microphone connected, this guy may even snoop on you and listen
   to everthing that is going on in your room from his/her room
   without your knowledge.  I'm telling this because someone has done
   this to me...

In a hostile environment such as this, you might consider chown'ing
the audio and similar devices on login/logout.  Under X11R5 xdm, you
can add something like this to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xstartup:

chmod 622 /dev/console
chmod 600 /dev/audio /dev/audioctl /dev/mouse /dev/kbd /dev/fb
chown $USER /dev/console /dev/audio /dev/audioctl /dev/mouse /dev/kbd /dev/fb

and the inverse to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset:

chmod 622 /dev/console
chmod 600 /dev/audio /dev/audioctl /dev/mouse /dev/kbd /dev/fb
chown root /dev/console /dev/audio /dev/audioctl /dev/mouse /dev/kbd /dev/fb

Have fun,
-- 
Simon.
From: steele@icd.teradyne.com (Alan Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: SUMMARY: X windows over phone lines for PCs
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:52:50 GMT
Reply-To: steele@icd.teradyne.com
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA


About one month ago, I posted an article describing my experiences
trying to run X windows over phone lines from a PC, using the XRemote
protocol.  We were evaluating the two PC products that support the XRemote
protocol, VisionWare's XVision and the NCD PC-Xdivision's PC-XView.  This
is a followup to that posting.

At the time of my last posting, both packages seemed unsatisfactory:  the
PC-XView package was crashing unexpectedly, and the XVision package was
using the wrong fonts.  The latter problem turned out to be cockpit error,
which was quickly identified by a VisionWare representative who answered
my posting.  The problem in the PC-XView package, however, was real:  there
is a bug in the server which causes it to die occasionally.  (We found one
guaranteed way to make it happen was to try loading a large color bitmap
image.)  Therefore, we chose the XVision package.

Apart from that bug in PC-XView (it didn't interfere with normal use of
any OpenWindows or standard X windows clients), we found PC-XView simpler
to use that XVision; however XVision had more features, such as using real
X icons (at least some part of them) instead of a generic icon for all X
applications.  The performance of the two was about equal.

If you're wondering about the performance, it depends on what you're doing.
Using two xterms side by side with "vi", or using Emacs windows, works
great.  Using OpenWindows applications such as the OW3 mailtool can be
very tedious.  Many design flaws in the OpenWindows tools are quickly
revealed when running them over a 19.2K modem:  the mailtool redraws
itself at least twice every time it displays a message; text entry items
in panels are horrendously slow, displaying one character every half
second or so; and most menus are very slow.  Using graphics-intensive
applications like FrameMaker is virtually impossible.

Hope this is useful to someone.  Information about contacting the vendors
for these two products is contained in Daniel McCoy's extremely useful
monthly posting to this group entitled "X Servers for PCs, Macs, and Amigas."

-ams
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: shmdgljd@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jay Schmidgall)
Subject: Re: Can an X-app send input events to another client window?
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:12:29 GMT
Reply-To: jay@vnet.ibm.com
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM
Organization: IBM Rochester, MN

In article <31192@hydra.Helsinki.FI>, karell@cs.Helsinki.FI (Esa Karell) writes:
|> Is it feasible to send input events from another X-app
|> to another? Let's say I have 2 xterms. Is it possible
|> that the other one sends e.g. "rm *" to the other one
|> and it actually gets processed as the command string
|> entered in that window?

Yup.  In fact, you could do just this thing using xse, available at
	export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/xsendevent-2.0.tar.Z
a good reason to have access control enabled, imho.

-- 
: jay          jay@vnet.ibm.com    My opinions and ideas, not my employer's.
: shmdgljd@rchland.vnet.ibm.com    (c) Copyright 1992.  All rights reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: MCOG@CHVM1.VNET.IBM.COM ("Michael A. Coggins")
Subject: General questions about X protocol and max sizes
X-Unparsable-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 21: 12:23 CET
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:03:15 GMT

(I sent the a while back, but I don't know if it got
 to the newsgroup.  Sorry if you are seeing this again.)

Question of possible interest for server gurus only:

Most of the dimensions for X and Y in the X protocol
are INT16 (signed int) and for width and height they
are CARD16 (unsigned int).

The X server sample does not really deal with these consistently
in all cases.  For example in miHandleExposures all x and y values
and width and height values are passed in as int, which is OK.
However, at one point there is the following code:

srcBox.x2 = srcx+width;     (x2 is a signed short)

The problem here is that if width is big (32768 to 65535) and srcx
is small (zero for example) then srcBox.x2 will be negative.

This can obviously cause problems down the road, particularly in
the case on which I am currently working.  How should this be
handled?  Should I attempt to find all these cases and report
them as "bugs"?  Should I chop down large widths whenever I
seem them in my ddx code?  (I'm only working in the ddx).

You might think normal clipping will handle this, but it doesn't
in this case for reasons too complex to describe in 200 words or less.

Thanks for any hints.
--
Mickey Coggins  mcog@chvm1.vnet.ibm.com
                +41-1-436-7274 or +41-1-436-8525 (fax)
                Hohlstrasse 560, CH-8048 Zurich, Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: biswick@ms.uky.edu (Chad Hall)
Subject: Cut & Paste on NeXT
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:02:35 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

I've recently found a working X client on our nexts, and was wondering
if there was anything I needed to do to get cut & paste to work.

As you can tell by the fact that I am asking this question, I know very
little about the inner workings of X, so pardon me if this is a stupid
question. :)

The problem seems to be that it doesn't transfer to the target. I can get 
'cut' just not 'paste'. Using twm (I've tried tvtwm and olwm, and neither
seem to work any better...) on X11R4.

Any help would be appreciated.

Biswick.
From: jimj@miller.cs.uwm.edu (James Jegers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Resolutions greater than 1024x768?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 00:43:04 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.9.13

   I was wondering if there are any driver for video boards for
   the i386 that are greater than 1024x768.

   In particular I am looking for the Xconfig file for an

   Orchid Fahenheight 1280 (1meg) video card with a NEC 5FG monitor.

   My problem is the XFree86 only see's 512k of memory on the card,
   even when there is more, and the jumpers are set to use it.
   I'm also having some problems getting the lower resolutions to work.

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From: meo@hostname.austin.ibm.com (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: IMAKE on DEC
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:35:18 GMT
Reply-To: meo@hostname.austin.ibm.com (Miles O'Neal)
Organization: IBM AWD

yuri@physics.heriot-watt.ac.UK (Yuri Rzhanov) writes:
| 
| The problem is: I need to link some unusual libraries (like
| libXpm.a, my own, etc.). On Sun, I defined them as LOCAL_LIBRARIES
| and everything was fine. But on DEC, the target depends not only
| on $(SRCS) but also on $(DEPLIBS) which are defined to be equal
| to $(LOCAL_LIBRARIES).

You can just put a line like

DEPLIB =

in your Imakefiles.

Or, if you control the Imake configuration, look at the end of the
Project.tmpl file and comment out the lines where 'NeedDefaultDepLibs'
gets defined.  You could as easily add a -DDEPLIBS to the xmkmf
command, but either of these latter approaches, while more elegant
at first glance, mean othesr will run into the same problem.  So
just add the line to the Imakefiles.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: hand@spc9.jpl.nasa.gov (Kolin Hand)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.binaries.pictues.utilities
Subject: xv v2.0 Color Usage
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:29:54 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


Grretings all.

I have ported xv-2.00 to my XFree86 1.1 but have a question...

First, let me say that I have an ET-4000, 1-Meg card driving my
display on my 386 (using 386BSD).

When I load either a GIF or a JPEG image, the image loads with a
message saying "256 colors found (61 unique)."  Or something like
that.  Well, it appears as if xv is using only those 61 colors when
displaying the image.  How do I coerce xv to utilize all 256 colors?
As a note, I went into the "color editor" and observed the "color matrix"
was sparsely represented with only, you guessed it, 61 colors.  All of
the others were black.  

Any help would be appreciated.

Kolin

+===========================================================================+
+  "Guilt Trip:  The nuclear weapon of relationships."  -- K. Hand          +
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+  Kolin E. Hand                              hand@spc7.jpl.nasa.gov        +
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: lheureux@alysse.fai.ucl.ac.be (Olivier L'Heureux)
Subject: Re: FAQ
Organization: Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Louvain
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:37:18 GMT

ccnjb@bristol.ac.uk (Nick Bruton) writes:
> Please could someone point me to the FAQ for this group
> Thanks Nick Bruton

This is from the FAQ:

>> This posting is intended to be distributed at approximately the
>> beginning of each month. New versions may be archived on
>> export.lcs.mit.edu, uunet, and larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu.

Have also a look on `news.answers'.

You can also guess the people archiving the TeX supplement archive the
FAQ too. The `Supplementary TeX Information':

>> [...]
>> This file is monthly (in early days each month) posted to USENET newsgroup
>> "comp.text.tex" and cross-posted to "news.answers". It is in several parts.
>> The entire document is reposited in
>> CS.NYU.EDU (128.122.140.24)  at ~ftp/pub/tex/
>> and also in many good archivers, e.g.
>> rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) at the /soft/tex/documentation/
>> as the file FAQ.supplement-mmm.yy (mmm-yy is the month and year).
>> In that directory is also the comp.text.tex FAQ.
>> [...] 

						Olivier L'Heureux

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: chrisp@cephb.cephb.fr (Chris Person)
Subject: Problem using xdm
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:53:30 GMT

Hi,

 I have encountered problem using xdm on a Sun SparcStation. I precise that I
use the X11R4 version of xdm. The prime goal is to use mwm instead of openwin.

 I then try to set up xdm like I always did but got a unknown message in the
errorlog file I set up in xdm-config file. The message is:

Fatal server bug!
Unsupported keyboard type -1

XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
      The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.

I try to manage this error in a few ways using xmodmap but couldn't change
anything.

Can somebody help me ?

Thanks in advance


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tea@nta.no (Tom E Aamodt FDA)
Subject: Motif and translation tables - HELP!!!
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 11:52:38 GMT

1) Motif has default key assignments for some of the F-keys. We have developed
an emulator and want to use the F-keys. We have tried to define other mappings
for the F-keys in our resource file, but some F-keys are impossible to map to 
private actions (F1, F4 and F10). 
How can the default assigments for the F-keys be overridden? 

2) XtAugmentTranslations are supposed to merge a program-defined set of
translations with translations set in a resource file, the latter having 
priority when conflicts occur. We have not yet been able to make these
things work properly. Key-presses fall through to the <KeyPress> event when
XtAugmentTranslations is used. (XtOverrideTranslations seems to work).
How can XtAugmentTranslations be made to work properly?

Resource file:
Diman*XmDrawingArea*translations: \n\
                         <Btn1Down>     : mouseInput() \n\
   ! None                <Key>Tab       : func(TAB) \n\
   ! Shift               <Key>Tab       : func(BACKTAB) \n\
                            :
                            :
                         <KeyPress>     : insert()


Our program:
XtActionsRec actionTable[] = {
    { "func",       (XtActionProc)handleFunction },
    { "insert",     (XtActionProc)handleInsert },
    { "mouseInput", (XtActionProc)handleMouseInput }
};

String defaultTranslations =
"                        <Btn1Down>     : mouseInput() \n\
  ! None                 <Tab>          : func(TAB) \n\
                           :
                           :
                         <KeyPress>     : insert()";

XtAugmentTranslations( ourDrawingAreaWidget,
                       XtParseTranslationTable(defaultTranslations) )


Our program is running on Sun Sparq under X11R4, Motif 1.1.
This message has also been sent to comp.windows.x.motif

I would be most grateful for your help.


Greetings from
tea@nta.no 

Tom E Aamodt 
Norwegian Telecom Research



Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.apps
From: muradia@bcarh1ed.bnr.ca (Rajiv Muradia)
Subject: Re: X based world clock anyone??
Reply-To: muradia@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 20:01:56 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.083056.4698@reed.edu>, bthompso@reed.edu (Benjamin Thompson) writes:
> In article <1992Oct6.124038.25294@atlastele.com> brians@atlastele.com (Brian Sheets) writes:
> >I am looking for an X based world clock. Does anyone have such an
> >animal???
> >-- 
> >Brian Sheets				"TRUCK?! What truck?"
> >153 N. Hayden Bay Dr.			 
> >Portland, Or 97217			   -Raiders of the Lost Ark
> 
> Brian,
> 	One program that I use everyday and suits my needs is
> sunclock.  It can be found at export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib I
> believe.  It may not be quite what you want, but it does show you
> which part of the earth is lit and which is not.  A real snazzy
> feature is that it will update an icon of itself if you have a window
> manager that supports updatable icons.  Please inform me if you find
> any other suitable "world clocks"
> 
> 
> -- 
> Benjamin Thompson                     My views are my own, as far as I know...
> bthompso@reed.edu                     I go to Reed College --- You can trust me

Have you looked at Xchrono. Here is the title from the README file. It should
be on the export.lcs.mit.edu site, if not check ARCHIE.

Xchrono is a multi-timezone, multi-face clock program for X Windows.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
From: cws@mbunix.mitre.org (Chris)
Subject: Popup dialog question
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, Ma.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:36:53 GMT



We have a motif application that we're developing and have what I
expect is a very simple problem.  Any help would be appreciated.

Here's the situation:

We popup a dialog that requires some user input, etc.  Then we select something
from the main window's menu (to pop up another dialog for instance).  What 
happens, is the first dialog gets shuffled behind the main window (which takes 
up the whole screen.)

What we need to happen is to have the first dialog stay in front of the main 
screen.  

I expect that either a window manager protocol or some window attribute has
to be set, but we haven't located it yet. 

Any ideas, (email is preferred, since this probably is basic anyway)

Thanks in advance...

Chris

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: feoh@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Patti)
Subject: Porting X to System V 3.2 (Query)
Organization: /etc/organization
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 16:01:14 GMT


Hello. 

My company is planning a port of X11R5 to System V 3.2 and we were wondering
if anyone else has already attempted this, or even researched it, and could
give us some pitfalls to watch out for, hints, tips, and the like...

I would appreciate any information you could give us tremendously...

Please do not followup this post to the group (or if you do email as well)
but mail your responses to unix_folks@ncm.interlan.com and I will summarize
if the demand is there.

Thanks in advance,
	Chris Patti
	chrisp@ncm.interlan.com
	feoh@gnu.ai.mit.edu

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese)
Subject: any experience with Xcute board
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:19:27 GMT

 just received some info on the Xcute board which is a hardware/software
solution to turn your PC into an X-terminal. looks interesting. has
anyone used this product yet and is willing to impart some opinions?

by the way the board is made by

troyton computing
los angeles california
213 382 9272
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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Wanted: application builder like sun's guide
Date: 13 Oct 92 21:01:26 GMT
Organization: Guido's home 486 box

I am looking for an application builder like Sun's guide. Is there such
a beast available? Please give response by email, because I dont get
this newsgroup here, I can only post to it. I'll post a full report on
the responses asap.

-Guido
From: eddie@laslett.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Xintian Eddie Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: adding font path on a X terminal
Date: 8 Oct 92 01:25:14 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center


It's using tftp to access the remote font file, it might be the
problem of the tftp access privilege i.e. it can't read my fonts.dir
file.

	Eddie Lin
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