| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
Hi,
a customer of mine claims about the protocol and release versions of the
Xserver.
He has written a neat C-Program, which checks this items, but gets an unex-
pected value for the protocol version. He expects to get the value 3 or 4
which should be the actual one, but gets 11.
Perhaps try it.
Thanx in advance for any help.
<>Armin<>
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/*
$DEFINE X11 DECW$INCLUDE
$CC TEST
$LINK TEST,SYS$INPUT/OPT
SYS$SHARE:DECW$XLIBSHR/SHARE
^Z
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
main ()
{
Display *xdisplay;
char *vendor;
int vendorrelease;
xdisplay = XOpenDisplay("\0");
if (xdisplay == 0) {
printf ("Error opening X_Display\n");
exit(-1);
}
vendor = ServerVendor(xdisplay);
vendorrelease = VendorRelease(xdisplay);
printf ("Vendor %s, Release %d\n", vendor, vendorrelease);
}
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| 2382.1 | FWIW | BLOCKP::neth | Craig Neth | Fri Mar 02 1990 10:07 | 12 |
FWIW, here's what the program returns from the Server on my DS3100: Vendor DECWINDOWS DigitalEquipmentCorporation UWS2.2, Release 1 Here's what it says on a VMS system running VMS V5.2: Vendor DECWINDOWS DigitalEquipmentCorp., Release 11 There seems to be some mismatch between the customer's expectations and what got implemented.... | |||||
| 2382.2 | History | DECWIN::FISHER | Burns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23 | Tue Mar 06 1990 15:41 | 17 |
Back when the protocol was being defined, I convinced Bob Scheifler to
add a protocol version and a vendor version to the protocol startup.
They did that, but they insist that the protocol does not change.
Therefore, the protocol version is 11 (i.e. X11 as opposed to X10).
The 3 and 4 that the customers are expecting correspond to MIT's
release numbers. Theoretically, the protocol itself does not change
between MIT releases. It's just that the server has implemented things
slightly differently, or added new optional features, etc.
Personally, I think this is sticking the head in the sand. They should
have built in a mechanism for evolving the protocol. However, this is
what we got. All X11 servers in the known universe will return 11 as
the version, thus making my hard-fought battle irrelavent. (I guess it
was a case of, "Sure we'll put this in just to shut Burns up..."
Burns
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