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From: Plagued by Penguins
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 00:00

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Bruce Cook <BC3-AU@bigfoot.com> writes:
> My problem is convincing the local software company or SGI to improve their
> programs.  SGI won't even fix their stupid little editor (jot) that
> is the default for everything, so that it will work under X and not
> just on the console.

Jot was written years ago (probably in the NeWS days before X11 was
the standard) and uses SGI's GL graphics library. No, not even
OpenGL - just plain old GL. You'll find that jot displays remotely to
other SGIs just fine.

> (Whay an editor needs special graphice H/ware is beyond me)

It doesn't - it's just a historical thing.

Use aXe, xemacs, nedit, vi or whatever as your default editor if you
want one that's slower but displays to a non-SGI.

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From: Plagued by Penguins <rjh_NOSPAM@pixel.maths.monash.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Conned by progress - was Re: Suggestions please - Office for Linux
Date: 1997/08/12
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