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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:15:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Jeff Roberts <jroberts@ashland.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions list <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: gcd(X,XF86,FreeBSD) = ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326171449.3399A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.3.95.970326171852.25F-100000@warp4.ashland.edu>

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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Jeff Roberts wrote:

> Greetings and salutations!
> 
> Does anyone know just how much X and XFree86 have in common?  I bought
> FBSD to learn UNIX programming -- esp. X* programming.  Are there
> appreciable deviations from X in XF86 that I need to consider, and also,
> are there appreciable deviations from XF86 proper to the port for FreeBSD?
> Is a good X programming book a good XF86-on-FreeBSD programming book?
> 
> I ask, because in addition to some books already mentioned on another
> thread, I'm looking at a couple of X books from my book club that just
> claim to deal with "X Windows".

You're fine.  XFree86 is an implementation of Xwindows.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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