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Started by Scott Kay
Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:35
Andrew for X11R4
Author: Scott Kay
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:35
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:35
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How can I get the Andrew distribution for X11R4? I have the current X11R5 version but I need to use it on a Sun w/ a Parallax video card that only supports an X11R4 server. Hopefully there is an easier way than getting the entire X11R4 distribution and just pulling off Andrew. Thanks in advance Scott ******************************************************************************* Scott Kay The Analytical Sciences Corporation (TASC) 55 Walkers Brook Drive Reading, MA INTERNET ADRESS: spkay@fandago.read.tasc.com Phone: (617)942-2000 X2033 FAX: (617)942-7100 *******************************************************************************
Re: Andrew for X11R4
Author: Bill Cattey
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:52
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:52
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I need to use it on a Sun w/ a Parallax video card that only supports an X11R4 server. Good news / Bad news time. Good news: Andrew on the R5 tape works just fine with X11R4. In fact, there should still be defines buried in there for it to work with X11 all the way back to R2. Bad news: Andrew stresses portions of the X server that vendors never bother to test. I had bad experiences with the Parallax R3 server on the IBM RT. Perhaps Parallax has removed the bugs that Andrew found. Good luck! -Bill Cattey MIT Information Systems
Re: Andrew for X11R4
Author: Bob Dew
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:27
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:27
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How can I get the Andrew distribution for X11R4? I don't know about problems unique to the Parallax video card, but otherwise, about the only incompatibility you'll likely encounter in running the X11R5 Andrew binaries (from the CD ROM distribution) under X11R4 is that the font format is different (pcf vs snf). Source from this latest distribution can be compiled and linked against either X11R5 or X11R4 libraries. While in theory you could get by in just building the .snf fonts, this isn't really feasible because Andrew fonts are scattered throughout the build tree. Fortunately, though, Andrew in its entirety builds easily from the X11R5 distribution on Sun platforms. -Bob
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