From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ben.uknet.ac.uk ([192.91.199.254]) by hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <2701>; Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:48:56 -0400 Received: from a.gec-epl.co.uk by ben.uknet.ac.uk via PSS with NIFTP (PP) id ; Thu, 3 Jun 1993 20:39:26 +0100 Received: by zombie.gec-epl.co.uk (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA01911; Thu, 3 Jun 93 20:40:40 BST Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 15:40:40 -0400 From: steve@gec-epl.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane) Message-Id: <9306031940.AA01911@zombie.gec-epl.co.uk> To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: 8.5 on x X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII > From: dschieb%muse.CV.NRAO.EDU@gec-epl.co.uk (Darrell Schiebel) > Does anyone know if the source to this '8 1/2' window system > is available somewhere via FTP, or the chances of porting > it to something like X?? i don't know if the source is available outside of the plan 9 distribution, but there are two parts to your answer: (a) the fundamentals of 8.5 - the file serving - can't be ported to x under unix, because unix doesn't provide the right file primitives (although you might get something close using named pipes, unix sockets or a user- level nfs server, but you still don't get the union directories) (b) it's possible to produce a look-and-feel 8.5 window manager under unix (there is already a public-domain version of 9term available), but i'd rather not have one under x - the whole point of 8.5 is that it throws away all the baggage, and just does it right first time (bit like rc, really).