new window manager

Frank Dietrich dietrich at SGI.COM
Tue Jul 12 08:23:00 AEST 1988



The button up problem was a bug and it has been fixed in the 3.0
maintenance release.

There is no question that server programming is hard.  However all
the PostScript source is delivered (it has to be, of course) and
anyone who develops an understanding of it can change it.  The ASCII
terminal is suggested because during development it is easy to
make mistakes that render the server inoperative and the ASCII terminal
provides a way to connect to the server and find the problem, to look
at the logfile output and to kill the server.

This is not true for programming in the user.ps file.  This is protected so
that if an error is detected while reading it the server ignores the
entire contents and runs as if you didn't have a user.ps file.

	-Mark



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