From: jbakst@us1.ibm.com (Jeff Bakst) Subject: Re: X11 server 3 Dec 1996 07:15:40 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32A42B98.1FFA.cygnus.gnu-win32@us1.ibm.com> References: <01BBE10E.66C2E120@bbs.prospect.com.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Original-To: Sergey Okhapkin Original-CC: gnu-win32 , gnu-win32-owner , "'Mu, Paul SLC'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Sergey Okhapkin wrote: > > Mu, Paul SLC wrote: > > >OS2 people has a free port of X11 using emx, which is the same as cygnus. > >Is socket in Cygnus gnu robust enough to handle all the networking ? > > Cygnus tools allows to compile X clients and libraries, so, I think, they > allows compile and X server code too. But it requires writing a lot of code > to "wrap" X requests to GDI requests, because Xfree video model is not Under OS/2 the Xservers are native...they do not use GDI calls. So if anyone is to port X over to NT then the servers should be native. The access is via a special driver...this might be able to be ported to NT. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".