RE: X-server for cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christian
> Jonsson
> Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 7:22 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: X-server for cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98
>
>
> Thanks for you reply. Let me ask try to get some things
> straight to myself and ask you a few clarification questions
> please.
>
> Is it correct understanding of me that there is a working,
> i.e., on cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98, X-Server available
> from the contrib directory?
>

YES

> This server, presumably
>
> 8465407 Jun  4 14:12 X-servers-v-1.0.tar.bz2
> 1032745 Jun  9 23:56 X-servers-v-1.0-exe.tar.bz2
>
> is not "interoperable" with your xfree86-4.0.1 binary
> distribution available in
>
> ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/xc-4-binaries/
>
> right?

Right

>
> Or is there some way of getting the server working with your
> binaries?

Those are also "my binaries" but a different kind of X-server, not drived
from XFree
thus cannot be mixed and matched... code of it was contributed by
Hans de Bock and modified by me later.  It was compiled using MSVC and
does not uses CYgwin therefore no luck to mix it with XFree86... if you
insists mixing it you are on your own risk and do not yell if a
boxer hand comes out of your Win98 and punch your face ;-)

Suhaib

>
> Thanks,
>
> /ChJ
>
>
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christian
> > > Jonsson
> > > Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 4:51 AM
> > > To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > > Subject: X-server for cygwin-1.1.4 under Win98
> > >
> > >
> > > I simply would like to ask the current status of
> > > having a cygwin X-server running on a Win98 box.
> > >
> >
> > Bad for you.  To get it working on Windoze98/95 ask M$ to
> > stop burrying 16-bit GUI code in the so-called gdi32.dll and
> > kernel32.dll to disguise the end-users with the notion
> > of Windows98/95 being true 32-bit kernel and gdi.
> >
> > > Is there a X-server working?
> >
> > yes
> >
> > >
> > > If so, where is it located and where can I read
> > > about how to start it?
> >
> > in the contrib directory, x-servers... but for God sake do not even
> > think of mixing binaries from xc-4-binaries directory to x-servers...
> > from contrib directory.
> >
> > Suhaib
> >
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > /ChJ