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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: backingstore and screen updates.
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Date: 16 Aug 88 01:42:00 GMT
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There are numerous bugs in the backing-store code that was placed in
contrib/ on expo.  (I'm not knocking the code, it was a great help to
us, thanks Adam.)  We've made lots of changes at MIT to make it work,
plus we've fixed some bugs in a few clients relating to this (like
xterm, which failed to worry about clearing it's inner border).
Strictly speaking, the latter is not really due to backing-store being
turned on, but by gravity starting to be obeyed.  However, it just
isn't reasonable for us to get this stuff out until the next release.