nanogui: Thread: David Bell

I just got a nice message from David Bell (the author of Mini-X), who had
seen Nano-X on Freshmeat and was surprised to see it contained his code ;)

Seemingly we don't have the latest version of his code, as he described a
much better way of doing the client/server interface than I implemented,
and then asked why I had dumped that in favour of a less advanced
method... Anyway, he is going to send me his latest version of the code.

He has a website at http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~dbell/, and his email
address is ####@####.####

Also, he gave me a pointer to a cool Mini-X program which displays a map
of the world, and lets you zoom on portions, move around it, etc. It's in
the form of a set of uuencoded email attachments, so I'll extract it and
put a tarball up on LinuxHacker for people to take a look at. Hopefully it
should be able to be made to work without too much difficulty, and perhaps
could be included as part of the collection of demonstration clients.

I also asked him what he thought about the licensing issue, I'll let you
know when I get a reply.

--------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. --------------
: Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham :
-------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ --------------------

Great!  I've been incredibly impressed with David's original work.

I will make the worldmap program run on nanoX, and I'd like to see any more
sample mini-x programs that anyone may have.  I think I've got a version
of nano-X (v0.5) that will run any original mini-x programs with all
api's implemented.  (AND and OR drawing modes are still not done...)

Greg

On Saturday, May 15, 1999 3:34 AM, Alex Holden ####@####.#### wrote:
> I just got a nice message from David Bell (the author of Mini-X), who had
> seen Nano-X on Freshmeat and was surprised to see it contained his code ;)
> 
> Seemingly we don't have the latest version of his code, as he described a
> much better way of doing the client/server interface than I implemented,
> and then asked why I had dumped that in favour of a less advanced
> method... Anyway, he is going to send me his latest version of the code.
> 
> He has a website at http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~dbell/, and his email
> address is ####@####.####
> 
> Also, he gave me a pointer to a cool Mini-X program which displays a map
> of the world, and lets you zoom on portions, move around it, etc. It's in
> the form of a set of uuencoded email attachments, so I'll extract it and
> put a tarball up on LinuxHacker for people to take a look at. Hopefully it
> should be able to be made to work without too much difficulty, and perhaps
> could be included as part of the collection of demonstration clients.
> 
> I also asked him what he thought about the licensing issue, I'll let you
> know when I get a reply.
> 
> --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. --------------
> : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham :
> -------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ --------------------
> 
> 
> 
> 
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