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From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: X11R4 servers with X11R5 clients
Keywords: X11R4 X11R5
Message-ID: <1791@adagio.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 92 07:50:21 GMT
References: <1992Jun17.200139.18113@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany
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In article <1992Jun17.200139.18113@ccu.umanitoba.ca> dab@ubitrex.mb.ca (Daniel Boulet) writes:
>What problems will I run into if I try to run the X11R5 clients included in
>BSDI's (and other) UNIXes on an X11R4 server?  For example, could I connect
>an X11R4 X-terminal to a BSDI box?  How about a Sun running X11R4?

Probably none. I've had BSD/386 and ISC 2.2 (running X11R3) in a net
for 3 months now, and just about everything to do with X works just
fine and dandy. No problems with runnin X11R5 clients on the X11R3
server, anyway.
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