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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: Small X for 386 bsd??
Message-ID: <s1hn7an.hasty@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 19:57:58 GMT
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In article <1992Aug31.153743.24065@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> venkates@frith.msu.edu writes:
>Hi
>Even the binary only release of X for 386bsd requires lotsa disk!,
>I was wondering (forgive me if this sounds stupid) if one trim the existing
>X release to it's barest minimum, I am only interested in having some
>sort of a windowing system running on the PC and am not paricularly
>intersted in having a vast number of fonts etc being available to me.
>On the same note, if X cannnot be made any smaller, are there other windowing
>systems that can be used?
>Thank you all in advance
>
>Venkatesh Gopinath
>Michigan state University.



You can strip the binaries and pick and choose your configuration.
If this becomes a problem, please let me know

The stock X386 1.2E 1.0.1 server with no debug symbols is about 1 MB.

Amancio Hasty