>> the answer is i didn't understand that there was a bug in the draw >> library; i was not sure if there was a little hidden magic on plan9 that >> made that work
if a function call behaves differently between plan 9 and p9p for no obvious & documented reason, that's always a bug. the new drawterm works around this by turning off most of the X optimizations. i got tired of working around the early OS X X server. russ
