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schmidt@rpksun1.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Martin Schmidt) writes:

>  - Is PEXlib a new API to the PEX-SI server ! Does this mean
>    that the capabilities of the server remain unchanged !?

	Yes


>  - Can someone just point out what are the important new features
>    of the PEXlib which were not available by the old PEX-binding ?

	What old PEX Binding?? The only previously available API
	was the PEX-SI PHIGS API which was a PHIGS implementation 
	and thus required you to use the PHIGS C Binding and be
	subject to all PHIGS policy rather than allowing access
	the the Protocol directly

 
>  - The problem in using PEX API is that it is very much low level
>    interface. This was the reason why I mentioned that I use the
>    "phigs API from MIT X11R5". Is there any similar "high level
>    interface" to this PEXlib ??

	There are some older APIs available for anonymous ftp
	from export.lcs.mit.edu in the contrib directory.
	There may even be newer ones developed on top of PEXlib
	available there I don't know, but I guess someone is
	working on something.

>  - Exist there some demonstration programs ?

	If you look at Tom Gaskins PEXlib book there are some example
	programs that are publicly ftp-able from someplace. I don't
	recall where, but it is listed in the book.



	Jay Hersh
	MIT X Consortium

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