Re: Texteroids

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>]

Ummm,

Excuse me but you are wrong.  If you care to read
http://www.xfree86.org/4.1.0/RELNOTES2.html you will notice the line that
says:
-initial DPS extension support
If you still doubt me, then check out the xfree cvs repository:
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/dpstk/ or
http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/dps/

Now the $40K question is, why isn't this library being built in the cygwin
distro?  Probably no one has attempted to do so, but I'm sure harold can
tell you what changes to your hosts.dep are necessary to attempt to build
it, should you decide to embark on the journey to build support in to your
xfree.

In fact this extension has been available for use since 4.0.3, IIRC.

Cheers,
Nicholas
--- Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 04:00:51 +0800, Zechy Wong wrote:
> > Hi, something happened when I tried to run texteroids.
> > An X window was open, and when I ran texteroids a black box
> > appeared briefly before disappearing.  These are the messages I got:
> > 
> > %% DPS Client Library Warning:
> >    Auto-launching DPS NX agent.
> > %% DPS Client Library Warning:
> >    FAILED to auto-launch:
> >     dpsnx.agent
> > 
> > texteroids: DPS is not available.
> > You need an X server with the DPS extension, or a DPS NX agent.
> > 
> > Wonder if anyone could help?
> 
> That's the Adobe Display PostScript extension. It's not open source
> so the server extension isn't in Cygwin/XFree86.
> 
> Basically. Tough. You can't run that app on this Xserver.
> 
> I know the Solaris Xsun server's have, but we don't.
> 
> Alan.


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