The X Resource is a quarterly working journal for X programmers that provides practical, timely information about the programming, administration, and use of the X Window System. It is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October by O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. The journal is the Official Publisher of the X Consortium Technical Conference Proceedings, which form the January issue. Table of Contents, Issue 6 (Spring 1993): DEPARTMENTS

• From the X Consortium: PEXlib: A New 3D API for the X Window System
• The X User: Best of R5 Contrib Software Paul Davey
• Resolving Xt Resource Collisions Al Tabayoyon
• Best of Netnews Edited by Marc Albert

PAPERS

• Writing Motif Widgets: A Pragmatic Approach Alastair Gourlay
• The Mercator Project: A Nonvisual Interface to the X Window System W. Keith Edwards et al.
• Multi-display Software in X: A Survey of Architectures Oliver Jones
• Broadcast Interclient Communication in Xt Programs David Shaffer
• PEX 6.0: Why? What is it? And how will you get there? Jeff Stevenson

Special Section on Help:

• XHyper: A Hypertext Online Help System James J. Hemmer
• Implementing Context help in Motif Jay Schmidgall
• Three Help Systems: XHelp, X.deskhelp, and UNIXhelp Paul Davey
• DASH: Chris VanHaren

DOCUMENTATION

• The Font Handler Package Hubert Rechsteiner and Francois Grize

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