Article Title           : xremote_port_to_alpha
Creation Date           : 6-11-93
Author                  : NCD Technical Support
Last Update             : 6-11-93
Last Update By          : NCD Technical Support
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Caveats found while porting Xremote to a DEC Alpha (64-bit) machine
running OSF/1:

- Long integers are 64 bits.  This breaks the code implementing the
  LZW compression algorithm.  For a quick fix, I added "-Dlong=int"
  to the compile line (ints are still 32-bits).  There were a few
  compiler warnings about redundant defintions, as some variables
  were delcared to be "long int."  However, the code seemed to run
  fine.

- The strncpy function does not append a null to the destination
  string after copying the requested number of characters.  This
  was causing xinitremote to crash.  A strncpy followed by a strcat
  was overrunning a malloc'ed string area, causing a segmentation
  violation on a later call to malloc.  I am told this is a Berkeley-ism,
  as I have never encountered it on a System V machine.  Maybe I've
  just been lucky.  In any case, all strncpy calls should be followed
  by explicitly adding a null character to the correct location in the
  destination string.