Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:37:52 +0200
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Fabio PISONI <fabiop AT mail DOT nemo DOT it>
Subject: Re: arena ported (barely)

At 08.52 31/03/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Web browser Arena barely ported to MS-DOS DJGPP environment.
>
>WOW!  I'm interested!  What graphics library does it use?
>

It just use Xlib over GRX (v1) with some patches for mouse and keyboards and
TCP, the select() also caused some problems. What is available today is
a "thing" that connect throught an ethernet (but a PPP packet driver
will be enough for the Internet). I can connect with my LAN NT IIS and
can navigate for some time (before everything crashes).
Also pattern filling is a big problem (for now has been stubbed).
Hovewer JPEGs are displayed nicely.
Next major step will be porting Xlib over GRX20 and from there
to the DJGPP V2. I remained into the X world for two reasons:
1. the Arena code is a real maze and stripping out X from the
   rest is almost impossible withoute re-coding
2. many NCs (IBM for example) have X as starting point, they really are
   X-terminal with an added browser so when a network stub will 
   be added to Xlibemu ...

Bye,