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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: how to start XFree86 ?
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 00:45:04 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Andreas Kohout wrote:
> 
> In article <338d17f8.13929803@news.dowco.com>,
>         randys@dowco.com (Randy Shepherd) writes:
> 
> > Hi I'm new to UNIX and BSD. I want to start x-windows but don't know
> 
> first of all, itīs called Xwindow, X11 or only X (no trailing īs :-)

Actually, it's *never* called "Xwindow" - the full and proper name is
"The X Window System" (as per Gettys and Scheiffler).


-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.