From: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex) Subject: Re: X11R6.3 binaries 13 Nov 1997 15:50:09 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199711121320.NAA20814@out5.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: vischne@ibm.net Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 vischne@ibm.net wrote: > All this talk about X11R6.3. I think it's really impressive, but there is > one loose thread: In Linux and other Unix flavors, you have a local > loopback so that the X-server doesn't have to use the network to start up. > It would make an enormous difference on useability of the X libraries if > some localhost hack were built into the system. Perhaps I missed something, but doesn't 127.0.0.1 work as a loopback device (it seems to for me, but I haven't tried X)? - alex - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".