RE: Xfree or win-x11

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

two different project, two different aims.
Do any commercial X Windows system supplier provide xterm, xdm, xinit and
rxvt?
Answer is NO.  Because, when Microsoft designed Windows they decided not use
ptys.
The purpose of win32-x11 is to provide X11 compiled with Windows native
compilers
with no emulation layer dependencies.  You do not need xterm to access
remote clients

Start win32-x11, telnet to a remote machine froma Windows telnet software,
set the display to
your Windows machine and enjoy.  You also do not need xterm to display local
clients on
win32-x11.  Use cmd.exe or command.com after setting DISPLAY.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mohammed Dakna [mailto:dakna@Theorie.Physik.UNI-Goettingen.DE]
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 9:07 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Xfree or win-x11
> 
> 
> I am a bit confuesed about the philosophy behind these 
> parallel ans very
> similar projects. I have downloded the latest binaries of 
> win-x11 it works
> great (beside small problems and the slowdown at start). 
> However win-x11
> do not have xterm. So I had to combine it with xfree and now 
> xterm works
> too. So why this scattering around ?? . I causes only loss of 
> diskspace or
> what. I am testing now the xwin-18 of halod  in this way.
> 
> 1)xwin.exe to xwin.exe.org
> 2)xwin-18.exe to xwin.exe
> 
> I still not working. The freeze still occure. Could someone 
> tell me if I
> am right proceding
> 
> Thanks
> 
> MD
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