Re: Standardizing new HTML features

Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
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Subject: Re: Standardizing new HTML features 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 29 Apr 93 15:06:41 PDT.
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Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 17:22:05 -0500
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
> Building viewers so that they can also operate on some pre-existing
> window, instead of just creating their own, is an excellent idea.  I'm
> always surprised when otherwise-wonderful viewers, such as Ghostscript
> or xv, don't do this  from the start.  Probably just doesn't occur to
> their authors.  Also, it seems tricky to do with most (all that I know
> of) Xt-based toolkits.
Ghostscript 2.5.2 does this.
    GHOSTVIEW="__window_id__"
    DISPLAY="whatever"
    export GHOSTVIEW DISPLAY

Ghostview 1.4.1 uses this feature.
Now we just have to fix xloadimage, mpeg_play, (and you said you had a
fixed xv).

--sanders@bsdi.com