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From: Andrey A Mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
To: anothy@cosym.net
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 17:12:41 -0600
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hi,=20

i'm not posting this to the list, since i'm not sure how many people need t=
o
know about this, but something called x.tar.gz (or a variation thereof) was
located on the plan9.bell-labs.com ftp site at least in january this year..
i think it was the infamous X port..=20

i don't remember the exact location, though... i remember downloading and
unzipping it, but that was all..

hope this helps in any way :)

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 anothy@cosym.net wrote:

> the APE paper (i think) mentions that APE has been used to
> build X11 on Plan 9, but that it's not included in the
> distribution because it's too much work to maintain. i
> imagine the presence of the very good vnc client also helps
> negate the need for X for most people.
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> however, shame me as it does to admit it, i'd still find a
> local X server very useful. there are about a half-dozen X
> programs i find useful, and i'm not up to porting them all
> the Plan 9's /dev/draw.
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> so... understanding that it's totally unsupported... can
> whoever did the work in the Labs either share whatever
> changes were made? i assume that, at least, X had to be told
> how to talk to /dev/draw. i suspect various things also
> needed to be done to convince it to 'configure' properly.
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> if nobody has any info, i'm going to give it a shot myself,
> but X is an intimidating (read: freakin' huge!) body of
> crap^Wcode, and i'd rather not duplicate work someone else's
> already done.
> -=CE=B1.
>=20