Date:	Mon, 13 Nov 1995 15:52:35 -0500
To:	jfh AT ES-sun2 DOT fernuni-hagen DOT de (Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer),
	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From:	"Cory C. Albrecht" <cory AT ionline DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Porting X11 programs HOW?

At 20:42 12/11/95 GMT, Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer wrote:
>Are there efforts for porting nice unix-X11 programs to Windows with
>DJGPP (apart from the already done port of the wonderful tcltk?).

There are the xlib-???.zip files, which can be found on asterix.inescn.pt
and ftp.delorie.com (sorry, I can't remember the directories offhand).
However, I found that the documentation comes in the zip files containing
the source code and that is another 1.75 megs to download across one or
the other of two slow links (asterix.inescn.pt clocked in at under 1200 bps
and I ftp'ed the src files starting at about 00h00 EST). Also, the doc
files are corrupt - I get nothing but garbage when unzipped.

If you already are familiar with programming for X, then it might be
good for you - from the example programmes supplied, it appears to be
a resonably complete implementation. For somebody like me who has no
experience programming with X it's useless without the docs as I don't
want to waste my time reading through the .h files to try and get an idea
what all the functions and their args are, or what init routines I may
need to call.

Cory.

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