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From: Bob Weiner <weiner@wave.infodock.com>
To: Mats.Lidell@contactor.se
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In-reply-to: <upw08ajkv.fsf@pm1.contactor.se> (message from Mats Lidell on 17
	Dec 1996 23:32:00 +0100)
Subject: Re: Porting XEmacs to Windows NT or 95.

> From: Mats Lidell <Mats.Lidell@contactor.se>
> Date: 17 Dec 1996 23:32:00 +0100
> 
> >>>>> "Bob" == Bob Weiner <weiner@wave.infodock.com> writes:
> 
> >>>>> "JT" == John Turner <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:
>     >>>>>> "SB" == Steven L. Baur writes: "John" == John Turner
>     >>>>>> <turner@xdiv.lanl.gov> writes:
> 
>     Bob> Associates <http://www.infodock.com>, could work on, either
>     Bob> if funded directly or through support contracts for a few
>     Bob> large sites.  My guess is that its probably on the order of a
>     Bob> 6-month project, though of course Microsoft programmers are
>     Bob> excellent at throwing in cruft that makes porting harder than
>     Bob> it should be.
> 
> I guess you are referring to a real native port with Windows look an
> feel? Great but ...

Yes.

> I wonder how much work it would be to port it using a local X
> emulation package. (If that is the right name for it. I know of at
> least one X-server product that allows clients to run locally. I even
> tried this once but the X-server product available to me at that
> moment was to old for my C-compiler so I gave up.)

Yes, this could be a quicker and simpler solution.  I have started
doing background research on this and will likely go in that direction
first.  The disadvantage is that all users will have to have the
X server package, of course.  For corporate users, this shouldn't
be a problem; for individual or educational users it might.

Bob

