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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ytalk and libraries....
Date: 23 Oct 1996 18:22:01 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <54mgbq$7te@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <326BCA7E.60C3@wsg.net>
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In article <326BCA7E.60C3@wsg.net>, David M. Fogarty <chaos@wsg.net> wrote:
>I posted here a while ago about using ytalk on a 2.1-R and 2.1.5-R box.
>It complains (under the shell) that it can't find it's libraries,
>libX11.so.6.0 and libXext.so.6.0. From what I understand (and what
>seems logical) is that these are both part of X. I got a response or
>two to my post but no one was able to give me a copy of the libraries.
Well, it's probably not a good idea to have people send you libraries
in the mail... who knows what they could have put into them?
>My machine is too minimal to handle an install of X nor can I really
>take the time to go through the gzips of X for the libs....
>I've cc'd the address listed in the 'bugs' section of the man page
>because I think it might be a good idea for a slight change in ytalk's
>behavior on startup.
From the README in ytalk's distribution:
If you do not have X11 installed on your system, or you do not
wish to support the X11 interface, then edit the configuration at
the top of the 'Makefile' file then run:
make
rone
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