Re: How good is X11 R4?

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From: Frank Mayhar
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 18:44

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In article <1028@wubios.wustl.edu>, david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J.
Camp) writes:
> I have been eyeing hungrily the R4 release of X11 on our local archive.
> My boss is concerned that it will take more disk space and waste my
> time.

He's right.  I did it anyway.  :-)

Seriously, it takes about 150 MB or so for the sources (including
contrib).  Binaries
take (let me check...) around 12 MB on my 386i, including bitmaps,
libraries, several
contrib binaries, and Gnu Emacs.
--
Frank Mayhar  fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (..!{uunet,hacgate}!ladcgw!fmayhar)
              Bull HN Information Systems Inc.  Los Angeles Development Center
              5250 W. Century Blvd., LA, CA  90045    Phone:  (213) 216-6241

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