RFC1198

Network Working Group B. Scheifler Request for Comments: 1198 MIT Laboratory for Computer Science FYI: 6 January 1991

                   FYI on the X Window System

Status of this Memo

This FYI RFC provides pointers to the published standards of the MIT X Consortium. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify any Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

The following documents are standards of the MIT X Consortium:

  X Window System Protocol
  X Version 11, Release 4
  Robert W. Scheifler

  Xlib - C Language X Interface
  X Version 11, Release 4
  James Gettys, Robert W. Scheifler, Ron Newman

  X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
  X Version 11, Release 4
  Joel McCormack, Paul Asente, Ralph R. Swick

  Bitmap Distribution Format
  Version 2.1

  Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual
  Version 1.0
  David S. H. Rosenthal

  Compound Text Encoding
  Version 1.1
  Robert W. Scheifler

  X Logical Font Description Conventions
  Version 1.3
  Jim Flowers

  X Display Manager Control Protocol
  Version 1.0
  Keith Packard

  X11 Nonrectangular Window Shape Extension
  Version 1.0
  Keith Packard

The following documents are draft standards of the MIT X Consortium. To become standards, further "proof of concept" is required, in the form of working implementations. The specifications may be subject to incompatible changes if implementation efforts uncover significant problems.

  PEX Protocol Specification
  Version 4.0P
  Randi J. Rost (editor)

  Extending X for Double-Buffering, Multi-Buffering, and Stereo
  Version 3.2
  Jeffrey Friedberg, Larry Seiler, Jeff Vroom

Standards and draft standards of the MIT X Consortium are generally included in the MIT X software distribution. The distribution is usually available via anonymous FTP from a variety of hosts around the world. Questions about FTP sites for the current release can be sent to [email protected]. The distribution can also be ordered on tape from MIT for a nominal charge, contact:

  MIT Software Distribution Center
  Technology Licensing Office
  Room E32-300
  77 Massachusetts Avenue
  Cambridge, MA  02139
  Phone: (617) 258-8330

The MIT X Consortium can be reached by writing to the Director:

  Bob Scheifler
  MIT X Consortium
  Laboratory for Computer Science
  545 Technology Square
  Cambridge, MA 02139
  EMail: [email protected]

Security Considerations

Security issues are not discussed in this memo.

Author's Address

Bob Scheifler MIT X Consortium Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone: (617) 253-0628

EMail: [email protected]