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From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: X
Date: 13 Jun 1994 06:32:42 GMT
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Boris Pitel (scibp6p@panix.com) wrote:

:       I installed on my machine whatever was on the CD ROM related to X386
: It works roughly now. But I never was doing anything with X Windiows. (
:  (I have MSDOS/Windows programming background)
: So I have
: few very naive questions.
:    1) What good applications are available for X (prefer free :)) - I mean
: something like File Manager, Editor (sorry, prefer Menu driven), C++ IDE,
: Communication Packages, Tetris, etc.. 

Get one of the available CD-Roms from walnut creeck ... There are plenty
of sources included .... There are X11 filemanagers and window based 
editors ....  (xfilemgr, Lucid emacs, emacs ...)

:    2) Do I have everything nesessary to write my own app for X?
: Sorry, I really a little bit confused about all different layers of X.

If you have *BSD then you get the necessary developement tools ...
compiler, assembler, linker, header files (.h) and libraries.
If you got a complete XFree86-2.X binary kit, then you have to install
header files and libraries, too. Then you are able to compile existing X11
programs (xmkmf; make depend; make; make install; make install.man) or 
your own.

	Andreas ///
	
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