SUBMISSION:	DaggeX 1.0b
TOPIC:		X11R5 Server for Amiga 
KEYWORD:	Network, X11, RTG
AUTHOR:		Kari 'Dagge' Mettinen, Leonard 'Vinsci' Norrgård
VERSION:	1.0b  (Beta)
STATUS:		Freeware
SIZE:		12MB
REQUIREMENTS:	OS 2.04 or above, 4MB RAM, possible network adaptors
SPECIAL:	Works with Picasso II gfx board
MAINTAINER:	Markus Illenseer, markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
ARTICLE:

[Please do also read docs/DaggeX.review]

General Installation:

 There is no need for Installation! 

 If you have found this version of DaggeX on the 'Meeting Pearls'-CD-ROM
archive, then it is possible to start DaggeX 'out of the box' with no
further needs (at least that's what i hope) of installation.

 The supplied 'startx' script is available as script for normal
ECS/AGA use (WB/KS 2.1 or above required for Screenmode-Requester)
or for Picasso-II graphics board ('startx.picasso').

 If you intend to use DaggeX on a daily issue, then it might be better
to copy the entire directory to your harddisk and copy the first block
of the startx-script to your S:User-Startup script.

WB 2.04 USERS:

 It is possible to run DaggeX on WB/KS 2.04 without the required asl.library
for the Screenmode requester.

 You _must_ change the StartX-script though, to start DaggeX with some
new options:

 DaggeX -native 19024 -height someHeight -width someWidth

 Whereas '19024' is a ScreenMode-ID which can be locked up in the Screenmode-
ID table in 'Sys:WBStartup/modenames.info' (use 'Information' to look them 
up).

Fonts:

 The supplied X11 fonts are only an extract of the freely available fonts
for X11. X11 can - as the Amiga does - calculate required fontsizes from
a basic size. Unfortunatly not all clients do request such fonts and 
sometimes they then only fallback to ugly fonts. You can copy or assign
X11 font archives and use them together with DaggeX. Don't forget to copy 
the 'fonts.dir' and 'fonts.alias' files!

Network:

 Troughout this DaggeX distribution we don't need any network support.

 All clients supplied do run on the local machine with no further network
connections.

 To tell the clients to use the local machine, the environment variable
'DISPLAY' has to be set to 'local:0.0': 'Set DISPLAY local:0.0'
Due to some Unix-features it is required to use uppercase name DISPLAY!

 If you intend to use DaggeX in a network, you need a TCP/IP based network
stack protocoll such as AmiTCP or AS225R2 (developers only) and a working
SANA-II device for your network hardware, such as 2065.device for the
A2065 ethernet card or SLIP.device for a serial line connection.

 It is not intended to describe the detailed process about how to connect
to a remote machine. Please do refer to the original DaggeX-documentation
to see how to authorize remote clients to connect to your DaggeX.

 One hint: In case of desperate tries, try to use the DaggeX option -ac,
to allow all machines in the connected network (thus - if you are connected
to the internet - allow global distorted machines to connect to you) access
to your DaggeX.

 Warning: A wrongly installed authorisation will allow to sneak the contents
of your screen or to remotely display the output of programms on your screen,
but also to hack the mouse- and keyboard-events on your machine!

Programmer:

 If you have the elan and the motivation, you can try to port X11 
applications to the Amiga. All you need is the GCC (Gnu C-Compiler for Amiga),
the ixemul.library and the X11 libraries. In the drawer 'Programmer' you
will find the most recent static X11 Link-libraries.


Markus Illenseer
markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
6/1/1994