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Re: discuss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Mon Jan 22 05:12:49 1996
To: Eric Ford <eford@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 02:39:51 EST."
<199601220739.CAA02277@polys.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 05:08:44 EST
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
>while trying to get my kernel working, I tried to look through discuss
>archives, but found no xdsc existed for bsd. Is that something somebody's
>working on? Just haven't gotten around to it, or difficulties?
Well, I would really reccomend you use another viewer for discuss
stuff (xdsc is crap, slow and ugly). Try using M-x discuss in emacs.
However, I guess it should still be compiled for netbsd, so I made a first
pass attempt. The one brokeness I found which I couldn't fix without
looking much more than I'd like at Xaw was finding out the width of a font.
(apparently, X11r4's internal text_sink stuff had that information, but
it doesn't anymore?) Well, whatever, I suppose I should spend some real
time looking at it, but it's alittle late right now.
Anyway, the point is, I built a broken version of it (mainly, it comes
up in the wrong size) and put it in outland. so if you REALLY need it,
run it out of the outland locker. Until I fix the problem, it won't
go into the athena tree (and it may not make it into the current packs
until a patch release happens).
-- yoav
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