xinit under A/UX

Jordan Hayes jordan at Morgan.COM
Mon Oct 15 05:35:14 AEST 1990


Steve Peters <peters at Apple.Apple.COM> writes:

	Our X Window System product provides a startup script called
	"X" (which after much sanity checking, invokes XmacII). IMHO,
	linking the name X to the server binary is asking for trouble

I don't really care who forgot to get familiar with X11 at Apple before
trying to market and support a vendor product, but traditionally the X
server is called X.  Call your script something else, but leave
well-accepted conventions alone.

Try "man X" on any reasonable vendor's machine.

-----

  "X is a window system, not a program"
	-- ...

  "You can't be compatible by being incompatible"
	-- usually reserved for explaining another mis-feature of AIX
	   to IBM FEs, but certainly could be applied here ...

/jordan



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