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In article <1992Apr8.113011.23572@descartes.waterloo.edu>, wjbaird@descartes.waterloo.edu (Warren Baird) writes:
|>
|>1)  The information that I've seen implies that DECWindows under VMS is
|>an X11 varient, but I haven't been able to find the relationship
|>between various versions of DECWindows and the releases of X11.  Is
|>there an easy way to tell whether a version of DECWindows is X11R3 or
|>X11R4?
|>

VMS DECwindows started out as an X11R3 implementation.  The latest
VMS DECwindows Motif is an X11R4 implementation.  Obviously, we're working
on R5.


|>2) Is VMS DECWindows a full X11 distribution?  Does it support all of
|>the XLib toolkit?  Are there any other toolkits that are always
|>included?
|>

The entire Xtoolkit an Xlib are included along with language bindings 
for C, fortran, Pascal, Ada, Basic, Macro and BLISS (and probably
others that I forgot)

|>3) Is there any easy way for X programs running under VMS (with the
|>DECNet protocol, I suppose) to communicate with X servers running under
|>Unix? (either Ultrix or otherwise)
|>

the transport is the key.  DECnet is the default transport, but we also
support the TCP/IP transport.  Depending on what's on the other end of 
the wire, you can use either

|>4) Are there any special issues that have to be addressed in porting an
|>XLib-based program from Unix to VMS?
|>
Not really.  Some of your C include statements will be different and file
specifications different, but that's about it.  Much of the stuff that
we do at DEC is common source between Ultrix and VMS
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William M. Jackson
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