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Hi,

   Well, a combination of things has produced a working X11R5 binary
system on my RT. I never got the code from MIT (Xibm-athena) to work.
In fact, it doesn't even pass the compiler, so I'm guessing it has
never been tested on the RT under AIX. Even after I cleaned it up, it
crashed the server or didn't run at all. rune@sharkey.cc.umich.edu (Rune
Riisnaes) pointed me to a server binary that works great for me, but
crashes his machine. His OS is a bit further behind than mine in patches
and updates. That server is at brazos.is.rice.edu in pub/aix_rt (or
rt_aix, I don't recall).  The clients / fonts / etc. from export all
compile pretty much streight out of the box, with a few exceptions.
Together they make a full X11R5 system. Yippie!

The final directory sizes are (in blocks) :

19586 /usr/lib/X11
70640 /usr/bin/X11
2380 /usr/include/X11

To make X11R5 on the RT (AIX 2.2.1) you'll need about 120mb of free disk
space. My system is at update level 1773, if that helps but I don't know 
what the minimum needs to be. I'll send binaries to anyone who sends me
a tape, but if you must make R5 yourself send me mail and I'll try to
recant how I did it. It's not a very clean job. My system is a 6150/135
with 16mb of ram, tcpip, and AIX2.2.1 (1773).

brazos also has a set of X11R4 binaries, as well as the upgrades to the
AIX operating system. You need to use bffcreate and updatep to apply them.
Let me know if you lack the documentation to do the update, and I'll fax
or mail the appropriate pages. I'm assuming that since they're there, they
can be had and applied.

Peter Blemel
Management Sciences, Inc.
(505) 255 - 8611