From: dasilva AT woodmore DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov (Arlindo da Silva)
Subject: Re: Nedit for GNU WIn32?
6 Oct 1997 07:28:02 -0700
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To: edel AT fnal DOT gov (Mark Edel)
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> 
> >   Do you know of any port of Nedit for NT using the GNU Win32 compiler?
> > (There are client X libs for gnuwin32 and lesstiff builds out of the
> > tarfile.)
> 
> No I don't, but it sounds interesting.  I did know about the kit from
> Hummingbird for building X apps under NT and Windows.  It looked like
> what you'd get would be klunky, though, since applications built that
> way still require a separate X server to be running.
> 

True, you will need an X server, but there are free ones available
and it is not all that bad. However, you don't need to shell out $800
for the Hummingbird XDK when you can get client X libs for free from

       ftp://niteroi.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/win32/X11R6.3 

  Arlindo.

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