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Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:06:47 -0600
From: quanstro@quanstro.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re:__[9fans]_libdraw_α_differ_ences_between_plan_9__and_p9p
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i didn't have plan 9 at the time to compare.

- erik

On Fri Mar 31 16:15:10 CST 2006, rsc@swtch.com wrote:
> >> the answer is i didn't understand that there was a bug in the draw
> >> library; i was not sure if there was a little hidden magic on plan9 that
> >> made that work
>
> if a function call behaves differently between plan 9 and p9p
> for no obvious & documented reason, that's always a bug.
>
> the new drawterm works around this by turning off most of
> the X optimizations.  i got tired of working around the early
> OS X X server.
>
> russ
>