X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)

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Useful Things to Know

This appendix covers “miscellaneous” topics that either didn't fit cleanly into any other chapter, or fit into so many that we found ourselves repeating ourselves all the time.

In This Appendix:

The comp.windows.x Newsgroup

How to ftp a File

Getting Files Using ftpmail

BITFTP

The xstuff Mail Archive Server

Unpacking Files

Making a Filesystem Available via NFS

How to Add a Host

Adding a Host to /etc/hosts

Adding a Host Using NIS

Adding a Host Using DNS

Adding an Ethernet Address

Printing Documentation in the MIT X Distribution

Converting a Number Into Hexadecimal and Back

Configuring a Sun as an X terminal

Using More than One Frame Buffer Under SunOS

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Useful Things to Know

As we wrote this book, we found that there were a lot of odds-and-ends that didn't fit into any chapters but were too important to leave out. This appendix was devised as a “catch-all” for miscellaneous information.

A.1 The comp.windows.x Newsgroup

comp.windows.x is a Usenet newsgroup dedicated to the X Window System. You can use it reach thousands of X programmers and users. You would normally use a newsreader such as rn, vn, xrn, or readnews to read the group. If you do not have Usenet access at your site, you can still reach the newsgroup through e-mail. To request that you be added to the list, send a polite message to [e-mail]. To send mail to the entire list, use [e-mail].

In addition to comp.windows.x, there are also newsgroups for comp.windows.x.motif, ...