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RE: Web site
- To: "'Travis Howell'" <kirben at optushome dot com dot au>, <cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Web site
- From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:32:36 -0400
Travis,
Yup, the FAQ is out of date; I've started on updating it.
I will probably have a draft by Friday.
Harold
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> Travis Howell
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 8:32 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Web site
>
>
> The recent Cygwin/XFree 86 WWW site updates mention it is now
> compatible
> with Windows 95 or later but the FAQ at
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/faq.html still states it isn't
> compatible in several sections:
> 1.4 How complete is Cygwin/XFree86?
> At present the X11R6.4 libraries clients and servers are
> functional on
> Windows NT, 2000. Windows 95,98 and ME have 16-bit code in
> their GDI and we
> need help from volunteers to resolve issues on those
> platforms. The client
> libraries will run on Windows 95,98 and ME, but not the X servers.
>
> 1.8 Help, I retrieved the latest version via FTP, and I cannot use X
> Server!!!!
> If you are using Windows 95 or 98, break out your debugger
> and start working
> around the 16-bit code in GDI32.dll and kernel32.dll.
>
> 2.1 Can I use Cygwin/XFree86?
> At this time, Cygwin/XFree86 only supports Windows NT and
> Windows 2000. For
> purely experimental support for Windows 9x and Windows ME see Shadow
> Framebuffer Test 8.
>
> 3.7 Will you port XFree86 to Windows, NT, and Windows95?
> The Cygwin/XFree86 project has ported XFree86 to Windows
> NT/2000. See "How
> Complete is it?" for issues with Windows 9x and Windows MW. The
> Cygwin/XFree86 project does not plan to port XFree86 to windows 3.11.
>
> Also the download guide at
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/docs/howto/cygwin-xfree
-downloading.h
tml is out of date, all filenames are different now and the rgb and prog
files no longer seem to exist..