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Re: X11R6.3 binaries
- To: vischne at ibm dot net
- Subject: Re: X11R6.3 binaries
- From: Alex <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:23:27 -0800 (PST)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 vischne@ibm.net wrote:
> All this talk about X11R6.3. I think it's really impressive, but there is
> one loose thread: In Linux and other Unix flavors, you have a local
> loopback so that the X-server doesn't have to use the network to start up.
> It would make an enormous difference on useability of the X libraries if
> some localhost hack were built into the system.
Perhaps I missed something, but doesn't 127.0.0.1 work as a loopback
device (it seems to for me, but I haven't tried X)?
- alex
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