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- From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
- Subject: Re: Bug in Xws/HX-card?
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:46:18 GMT
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- I write:
- [...Badly misdrawn arcs in some circumstances with Xws server on HX cards...]
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- jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
- }It is conceiveable it is a bug.
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- I have been told via E-mail that it is indeed a bug in Xws which
- is fixed in V4.3.
-
- }But arcs (and in fact wide lines in X) are defined poorly, and
- }sensible people avoid them. ...
-
- That's a pretty silly thing to say, don't you think?
- ``Here's a windowing system, please use only straight lines.'' ???
-
- John
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