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Article #15X Consortium Draft Standard Available For Public Review: PEXlib
From: rws
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:31
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:31
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An MIT X Consortium draft standard defining an Xlib-level interface to the PEX protocol is now available for Public Review. PEXlib is intended to be the lowest-level interface to the PEX protocol, on which both higher-level toolkits (such as PHIGS) and applications can be built. PEXlib provides full access to the PEX protocol, including immediate mode graphics. The objective of this Public Review is to determine if the current draft is acceptable as a Consortium standard. Public Review can result in changes to the draft standard. Public Review of PEXlib is scheduled to end October 27, 1992. The X community is encouraged to review the draft and submit comments by electronic mail to: public-review@expo.lcs.mit.edu or by postal mail to: Bob Scheifler MIT X Consortium Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Techology Square Cambridge MA 02139 Electronic mail is preferred. Comments sent to other addresses are not guaranteed to be considered. Commentors should take the review process seriously, and should: 1. Identify objectionable functionality and wording in the document. 2. Suggest specific alternative functionality and wording. and most importantly: 3. Provide a rationale for the suggested changes. Commentors should also carefully distinguish between: 1. Problems that they regard as intolerable and that must be corrected before the specification becomes a standard. 2. Aspects that they do not like but could live with for a few years until a future revision of the standard. 3. Additional functionality that they can live without in the current standard but would like to see in a future revision. The following compressed documents are available via anonymous ftp to export.lcs.mit.edu in the directory /pub/DOCS/PEXlib/ PEXlib.doc.tar.Z troff source, tar format PEXlib.ps.tar.Z PostScript, tar format The source tar contains all macros and sources files for building the document, table of contents and index. The source tar also includes the complete header files. The PostScript tar includes two files: PEXlib.PS which is the main document and table of contents, and PEXlib.ndx.PS which is the index. The documents are also available in compressed, uuencoded form via the archive server at xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu. The following items are available, by sending a message with the Subject: line of "send docs <itemname>" and an empty message body: PEXlib.uu.1 uuencoded PEXlib.doc.tar.Z, in 4 parts PEXlib.uu.2 PEXlib.uu.3 PEXlib.uu.4 PEXlib.ps.uu.1 uuencoded PEXlib.ps.tar.Z, in 8 parts PEXlib.ps.uu.2 PEXlib.ps.uu.3 PEXlib.ps.uu.4 PEXlib.ps.uu.5 PEXlib.ps.uu.6 PEXlib.ps.uu.7 PEXlib.ps.uu.8 For example, use "send docs PEXlib.uu.1" to retrieve the first part of PEXlib.doc.tar.Z. Send a separate message for each part you want. Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting return addresses. If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response. If you happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu or path bar!foo!frotz in the body of your message, and the daemon will use it.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!expo.lcs.mit.edu!rws From: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.pex Subject: X Consortium Draft Standard Available For Public Review: PEXlib Message-ID: <1992Jul24.213109.11901@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 24 Jul 92 21:31:09 GMT Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Reply-To: rws@expo.lcs.mit.edu () Organization: MIT X Consortium Lines: 81