Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 14:05:45 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Cory C. Albrecht" <cory AT ionline DOT net>
Cc: Johann Friedrich Heinrichmeyer <jfh AT ES-sun2 DOT fernuni-hagen DOT de>,
        djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Porting X11 programs HOW?


On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Cory C. Albrecht wrote:

> There are the xlib-???.zip files, which can be found on asterix.inescn.pt
> and ftp.delorie.com (sorry, I can't remember the directories offhand).
> However, I found that the documentation comes in the zip files containing
> the source code and that is another 1.75 megs to download across one or
> the other of two slow links (asterix.inescn.pt clocked in at under 1200 bps
> and I ftp'ed the src files starting at about 00h00 EST). Also, the doc
> files are corrupt - I get nothing but garbage when unzipped.

Well, it seems that you gave up too early. That site certainly has 
some bandwidth problems, but I was able to download both parts of the 
source distribution, and it certainly wasn't at 1200 bps (I got average 
speed of 2 KB/sec, which seems more like 20000 bps at least).  And it was 
at 7am GMT, not even a night in Portugal.  (This was today.)  But then, 
of course, I used batchftp which doesn't give up until the files are 
here...  Also, the docs files as I got them are certainly NOT garbage.

Anyway, if anybody needs the docs from that port of Xlib, you can now 
have it without getting the sources.  Use this URL (or anonymous ftp to):

	ftp://is.elta.co.il/pub/xlib-doc.zip   (44KBytes)

Tell me if you have any problems whatsoever to get to here (this machine 
was defined as anonymous ftp server just a few days ago, so there still 
might be problems, but at least it talks to the outside world through a 
64K bps line).