On 3/18/25 4:05 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2025, Chet Ramey via TUHS wrote:
also,
related, I did find the original, wonderful, paper about
writing hello, world in x11: it was a compressed .ps; it
uncompressed fine but almost nothing I have could work with the .ps.
I have a pdf of that paper.
About five pages long, as I recall...
14.
Rosenthal, D., “A Simple X11 Client Program,” USENIX Winter Conference
Proceedings, pp. 229-242, Dallas, 1988
(the subtitle is "How hard can it really be to write "Hello,
World"?").
https://archive.org/details/1988-proceedings-winter-tech-dallas
If you agree that's the one we're talking about, I'll send it to Warren.
Chet
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