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- From: bt@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Bill Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Bug in Xws/HX-card?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.055051.14448@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 05:50:51 GMT
- References: <BzIHAB.CHE@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec19.183805.24106@crl.dec.com> <C08Jx7.H0F@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
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- In article <C08Jx7.H0F@news.iastate.edu>, john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
- |> I write:
- |> [...Badly misdrawn arcs in some circumstances with Xws server on HX cards...]
- |>
- |> jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
- |> }It is conceiveable it is a bug.
- |>
- |> 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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- It is a bug. We ran into it in an application we released to a Government
- Agency. 4.3 did not fix it for out HX based 5000/240's. Dec now does have a new
- server which fixes it.
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