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What is xcb? |
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Do you ever wish you could cut two or more separate pieces of text |
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at once from a window? Do you ever need to save the output from one |
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command for reuse in several subsequent tasks? Do you ever find |
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yourself wanting some easy means of globally exporting data, e.g. |
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to a parent shell, to another xterm or application, or to another |
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machine or user? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then |
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xcb is for you. |
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Xcb provides access to the cut buffers built into every X server. |
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It allows the buffers to be manipulated either via the command line, |
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or with the mouse in a point and click manner. The buffers can be |
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used as holding pens to store and retrieve arbitrary data fragments, |
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so any number of different pieces of data can be saved and recalled later. |
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The program is designed primarily for use with textual data. |
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What is so good about this release? |
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Release 2.3i add I18n and Unicode support to the base xcb. It also |
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supports more formats, so applications requiring compound text |
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for example work. You cna also paste utf-8 and japanese text... |
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Release 2.3 fixes a bug found in the XView code that prevented data |
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from being pasted from xcb to XView applications such as cmdtool. |
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The release also adds a Motif GUI, selectable as a compile-time option. |
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Now you can choose between the Athena or the Motif look and feel. |
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Yes, but has it been ported to WHIZ-IX 12.1A.00x, on SRS-80 27-bit CPUs? |
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Xcb has been ported to a wide variety of sites and systems. |
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In no particular order, the machines and operating systems known |
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to be running xcb include:- |
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o OSx (5.1a) - Pyramid MIS-2/02 |
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o DC/OSx (1.0) - Pyramid MIServer-S 1/32 r3000 |
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o AT&T SYSV (SVR3.2, SVR4) - i386, DG Aviion 5200 |
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o HP-UX (lots of versions) - HP 9000s |
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o SunOS (4.1) - Sun3, Sun4, Solbourne Series5, SPARCstations |
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o SPARC/OS (1.1) |
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o Solaris (2.1) - SPARCstations |
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o Irix (4.0, 5.2) - SGI |
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o ULTRIX (4.2) - DECstations |
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o UNICOS (6.1) - Cray Y-MP |
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o ConvexOS (10.0.2) - Convex 3100 |
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o DYNIX (V3.0.17.10) - Sequent Symmetry S81 |
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o AIX (3.2) - RS6000 |
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o RISC/os (4.52) - MIPS |
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o Domain/OS (10.4) - Apollo DN3000, 3500, 4500, 5500 |
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o Linux (lots of versions) - i486 |
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o VMS (5.5) |
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o DGUX (5.4.2) - AViiON mc88100 |
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o Dynix/ptx (1.3) - i386 |
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Xcb has been written to compile using both ANSI and non-ANSI compilers. |
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It is in use in X11 R3, R4, R5 and R6 environments. The current version |
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uses either the Athena widgets (libXaw.a) or the Motif widgets (libXm.a), |
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plus the X Toolkit library (libXt.a). |
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Ok, where is it available? |
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This version is a branch of the original xcb sources. It's homepage can be |
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found at http://xcb.plan9.de/ |
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So, it will compile, will it? |
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Yes! The makefiles will, by default, build the Athena widgets version |
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of xcb. If you prefer Motif, you should adjust the $(GUI) definition |
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to be -DMOTIF. In addition, if you wish to cut and paste text between |
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xcb and XView applications, you should also add the -DXVIEW flag. |
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AT&T SVR4 sites need libnsl.a during linking. If you are using |
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SVR4, and you don't like Imakefiles, you will need to add -lnsl to the |
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LIBS in Makefile.std. |
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HP-UX users may find that the Athena widgets are not installed on their |
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machine, even though the components are freely available as part of the |
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MIT X11 distribution. There is an HP maintained, but unsupported, set |
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of X11R4 libraries and utilities (including the Athena widgets) for the |
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HP 9000 Series 300, 400, 700, and 800. You can get the libraries, |
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include files, and config files (imake) via anonymous FTP from |
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hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com (15.255.72.15) - look for pub/MitX11R4/libs.s*00.tar.Z |
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AIX 3.2 users may find their Athena components are installed in a |
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non-standard place. Check the directory /usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/lib/Xaw. |
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VMS and ULTRIX users may find their Athena components are installed in |
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a non-standard place too. Check the directory /usr/include/mit for the |
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Athena include files. |
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And how do I set the thing up? |
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That is pretty easy too. Once you have compiled the program, |
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you can start using it straight away - just put it in your favourite |
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bin directory. The program contains a minimal set of fallback resources |
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so that it will behave itself even if there are no X resource specifications |
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for it to feed on. To install the program, plus its application defaults |
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file, and the man page, simply type 'make install install.man', after |
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checking the target directories for the install in the Imakefile/Makefile.std. |
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Who is to blame? Where do I send complaints? |
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Blame me. If you have any bug reports, porting problems, comments, |
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more comments, suggestions, patches, unwanted cash etc. please tell me. |
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I can be reached at the email address below. |
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Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com> |
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Feb 2001 ;) |
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I couldn't reach the original author, who wrote most of xcb, but your |
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mileage may vary. Xcb was originally brought to you by: |
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Better still, if you really like xcb, send me a postcard! |
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(to P.O. Box 213, Belgrave, Victoria, Australia. 3160). |
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Enjoy. |
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Farrell McKay (Farrell.McKay@mpx.com.au) |
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Nov 1994 |
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