Welcome to the official Xnext 3.00 distribution!

Xnext is an X server for OPENSTEP 4.2 platforms that supports various
screen depths reflecting the different NeXT and DriverKit modes.
An X screen that's realised as a window in the common OPENSTEP UI
enables you to start and display X11 applications on your system.


  DISTRIBUTION PARTS

Xnext consists of the following archive packages:
 X11R6.3-basic.m.I.tgz              X11R6.3 basic distribution.
 X11R6.3-libfonts.m.I.tgz           X11R6.3 fonts and bitmap data.
 Xnext-server.[version].m.I.tgz     The OPENSTEP X server application.


In contrast to older Xnext distributions, the new version 3.00 and up only
runs on Intel platforms (so far) and needs OPENSTEP 4.2 and maybe Rhapsody
in the future.


  INSTALLATION

To install Xnext on your computer system, you need access to the /usr folder.
The X11R6.3 window system requires its files to be located under /usr/X11R6.3
and you should add the binary path /usr/X11R6.3/bin to your path variable.

Unpack the X11R6.3-basic and X11R6.3-libfonts archives and make sure the
/usr/X11R6.3 exists afterwards.  If you want to put the archives' contents
into some other folder, you can create a link in /usr to this location.

To start up X applications from Terminal.app, you have to set the DISPLAY
environment variable (e.g. using setenv in your .login or .cshrc file).
The variable should have the format "localhost:0.0:, where localhost is your
host name (try the hostname shell command in Terminal.app).


  RELEASE NUMBERS

Currently, only the Xnext-server archive is expected to change in it's version
number.  All other archive files are a default X11R6.3 distribution, so the
version number is 6.3.


  BUG REPORT

If you discover a bug or would like a feature to be implemented,
please inform the author at stefan_leuker@hotmail.com


  SHAREWARE

Xnext is shareware -- if you want to use the software, you have to
buy it.  The registration fee is US$20 (or 30DM, if you like) and
is subject to change in the future.  Your license will be valid for
the current Xnext distribution and all future versions.

Please contact me for details or fill out the registration form
(it's in the /usr/X11R6.3 folder: Xnext-Registration.rtf).

Stefan Leuker
Grefrather Strasse 4
41334 Nettetal
GERMANY
eMail: stefan_leuker@hotmail.com

Find additional informations about Xnext's ongoing development at
  http://www.angelfire.com/biz/sle/Xnext.html

Copyright (c) 1995 - 1998 by Stefan Leuker