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- README for VXP - Visual X windows Programming Interface
-
- Yong Chen
-
- stdyxc05@pip.shsu.edu, ychen@bmc.com
-
- Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 by Yong Chen
-
- Last Modified: Apr. 6, 1995
-
- DISCLAIMER:
-
- This is beta release 2.0 of VXP -- Visual X windows Programming
- Interface using OSF/Motif widget set.
-
- This software is provided as is with no warranty expressed or
- implied. I hope you find it useful, but I won't be held responsible
- for any damage that may occur from reading, compiling, installing,
- using, or even thinking about it.
-
- See the file COPYRIGHT for details of copyrights.
-
- CREDITS:
- Thanks following people to provide me the access to some platforms:
- Stefan Nivall (nivall@ae.chalmers.se), Sun Solaris 2.3, SunOS 4.1.x
- Anders Bolinder(abo@ae.chalmers.se), Sun
- Todd Gruben (t-gruben@tamu.edu), IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2
- Henry G. Juengst (juengst@saph2.physik.uni-bonn.de), i386 NetBSD 1.0
-
- Thanks people in computer services at Sam Houston State University
- provide me HP platform also ftp, www services.
-
- DISTRIBUTION:
-
- o Distribution method:
-
- o via FTP:
- ftp.shsu.edu /pub/VXP
- o via WWW:
- http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP/Distribution.html
- o www home page:
- http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP/
-
- o Installation:
-
- VXP is distributed in binary format for different platforms. The
- following list includes platforms that VXP supports and their
- package name respectively.
-
- File name convention is:
- vxp<version>.<platform>.[tar].[Z|gz]
-
- For example: version 2.0 on HP-UX will be
- vxp2.0.HP-UX.gz
-
- Platforms
-
- 1. Hewlett-Packard: HP9000, HP-UX 9.0x
-
- 2. Silicon Graphics: IRIX 5.x
-
- 3. Digital Equipemnt Co.: Alpha AXP, OSF/1
-
- 4a. Sun: Sun Sparc, SunOS 5.3, Solaris 2.3
-
- 4b. Sun: Sun Sparc, SunOS 4.1.x
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- 5. IBM: IBM RISC System/6000, AIX 3.2
-
- 6. x86: NetBSD 1.0
-
- 7. x86: Linux X11R5/Motif 1.2, X11R6/Motif 2.0
-
- 8. x86: SCO
-
- 9. x86: Novell UnixWare 1.1, UnixWare 2.0
-
- 10. x86: BSD/OS 1.1
-
- 11. x86: Unisys 4.0
-
- 12. x86: FreeBSD 2.1, X11R6/Motif 1.2
-
- INSTALLATION:
-
- Since VXP is distributed in binary format, only thing need to be
- done to install is to unpack the package and make sure the file
- vxp has the permission to execute.
-
- For example, to install VXP on HP9000 running HP/UX, the package is
- vxp.HP-UX.tar.gz or vxp.HP-UX.tar.Z or vxp.HP-UX.tar.
- Here is how to unpack:
- % gzcat vxp.HP-UX.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
- or
- % zcat vxp.HP-UX.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
- or
- % tar xvf vxp.HP-UX.tar
-
- This will create a sub-directory vxp under current directory. The
- executable for VXP system is "vxp". Some samples can be found in
- vxp/samples sub-directory and vxp/docs contains documentations in
- ascii format and postscript format.
-
- If the file is not tar-ed, which means it is only a binary file,
- you need to download samples and documentation separately.
-
- PROBLEMS:
-
- See the file PROBLEMS for discussion of various often-reported
- problems. Please read this file *before* reporting a problem.
-
- REPORTING BUGS/KUDOS:
-
- When reporting bugs, problems, suggestions or contributions,
- please be sure to send them to the right place. I (Yong Chen)
- am really only interested in the working of VXP itself. Anything
- related to X, Xt and Motif should go to MIT and OSF respectively.
-
- HISTORY:
-
- See web page URL at http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP/QA.html.
-