X device dependant modules for DECstation-5000/200PX

Mike Iglesias iglesias at orion.oac.uci.edu
Sat Jul 21 02:43:13 AEST 1990


In article <10485 at lindy.Stanford.EDU> vaf at Valinor.Stanford.EDU (Vince Fuller) writes:
>That's sort of what I thought, too, until I started running into trouble with
>X11R4 applications and the DECWindows 4.0 server. For example, the program that
>I'm typing at right now (xrn) doesn't work quite right - there's no cursor, 
>which makes it tough to keep track of the current place in the ariticle or
>newsgroup list, not to mention typing articles to post (R4 xterm's also seem 
>to occaisionally lose the cursor...) Also, I'm not thrilled by the the thought
>of a server bloated by Display PostScript support, since I don't have a whole
>lot of need for Display PostScript at the moment.

There's a slightly modified xrn (called dxrn) on gatekeeper.dec.com in
pub/DEC/dxrn.tar.Z.  I don't know if it works better than xrn under
DECwindows, but it might be worth a try.


Mike Iglesias
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