Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:26:43 -0500
From: williams AT herky DOT cs DOT uiowa DOT edu (Kent Williams)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu
Subject: Re:  DJGPP & DesqView/X


>I downloaded Quarterdeck's X libraries and a fairly minimal DJGPP
>setup, compiled, stripped, and aout2exe'd the muncher demo, and
>*viola*, it runs!  :-)

Congratulations

>    However, when you close it from by selecting close after clicking
>on the window number (This is DV/X's own window manager, for those who
>are familiar with Open Look or Motif), it barfs into a DOS window to
>report an "XIO: Fatal IO error, probably ... KillClient".

This is unfortunately 'standard' behavior for X windows.  In order to
catch the close window message from the window manager you have to
do some obscure noodling.  Most X clients don't bother.

If you have ftp access, try looking for some of the client examples from
R5 (I believe DV/X is based on R5 now)  I noticed that most of the
R5 clients manage to die gracefully when you have the window manager
close their window.

>Tomorrow I
>shall poke around to see if I can figure out what's what with this,
>but I do want to report that DV/X + DJGPP seems to be feasible, and to
>ask if anybody else out there is actually working with both DJGPP and
>DV/X.

Not me sport. But good luck.

>    In particular, I'd love to have a version of DEmacs to run under
>DV/X---even if I have to do it myself.  (DEmacs is GO32 1.05, I
>haven't tried to use GO32 1.08 as DEmacs uses a patched version of
>GO32.)  Anybody else working on this?
>-- 

Well since you've gotten that far, you might try ftping epoch from
cs.uiuc.edu.  Epoch is Gnu Emacs modified to be a full fledged X client.
If the demacs patches aren't too hairy, this would be a unique fixer-upper
opportunity.