October 1992
Intermediate to advanced
346 pages
9h 7m
English
book
X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8 (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
by Linda Mui, Eric Pearce
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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 xstuff Mail Archive Server
Making a Filesystem Available via NFS
Printing Documentation in the MIT X Distribution
Converting a Number Into Hexadecimal and Back
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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 xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu. To send mail to the entire list, use xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu.
In addition to comp.windows.x, there are also newsgroups for comp.windows.x.motif, ...
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