Re: GNU Windows (GNU X-MS Win interface)

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From: Andrew Murdoch
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1992 16:31

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andrean@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andre Arianto Nurwono) writes:

  Hello. I recently got a copy of GNUWIN01.ZIP from cica.cica.indiana.edu,
  and tried to run it. It seems to be an X server for Windows, but I only
  got it to run as far as clearing the screen and displaying the mouse
  cursor. There seemed to be no documentation for it, and it said it needed
  an xinit.rc, gnuwin.ini, etc files. Does anyone know of this project,
  what it is, is it real or just a joke, and where to get the complete
  version of it ? Thank you very much.
					Andre N.

I think I read about this in alt.binaries.ibmpc. Someone said that it is
a 'joke' - they checked the code and found that when it claims to be
loading things, it just looks at the drive and snoozes for a bit. It is,
sadly, a hoax.

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| Andrew A. Murdoch                                  andrewmu@castle.ed.ac.uk |

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