From: Andrew Watts (awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au)
Date: 07/25/92


From: awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au (Andrew Watts)
Subject: SoftWare.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:13:38 GMT

Two things,

First: What X programs do others use for wordprocessing and the like? (I'm
hoping someone will say something other than VI, and not TeX, perhaps some
other suggestions?)

Second: (pretty trivial, but anyhow) I was trying to compile xhextris from
the contrib area of X11 ftp areas, well, it compiles fine, but (always a but
isnt there :) I get this error -

# xhex

Welcome, root...
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
 Value in failed request: 0x2
 Serial number of failed request: 4
 Current serial number in output stream: 5
#

Thats all the program reports as it exists, i was told that maybe using xset
to set the 'fp' to the default would work, but.. I dont have xset. So Two
questions, anyone else get Xhextris working, and does anyone have xset?
(I have seen neither mentioned for Linux X11)

Thanks.

awatts@st.nepean.uws.edu.au