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Re: Texteroids


Ummm,

Excuse me, but you are wrong....

The RELNOTES2 is actually incorrect. There is no extension. That
means server side support. There is however client side support.

What I mean by server extension, is when you do 'xdpyinfo' and
it lists the extensions. DPS is not one of those extensions.

Having checked if there's an agent. Yes there is. You need to
get the dgs sources. Just goto http://rpmfind.net and whack in
'dgs'. Now this little program provides the dpsnx.agent program
which does the equivalent to a server side DPS extension, and
uses our client side libraries.

As for cygwin.cf there's a BuildDPS NO which doesn't mean an
awful lot as nothing uses 'BuildDPS' it's meaningless and should
be removed.

Alan.

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 06:10:35AM -0700, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> 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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