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From: bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: window - the 410X window manager
Message-ID: <5608@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 30 Oct 89 00:26:14 GMT
References: <2783@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: bart@videovax.tv.tek.com (Bart Massey)
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <2783@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM> johnhi@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (John Higley) writes:
> Keith Packard did a program called window for the 410X terminals.  I cannot
> remember where I picked it up but I cannot get it to run.  I am missing one
> of the utilities (lw.c) and there is a libwin directory that never gets
> referenced.
> 
> Does anyone have any knowledge about this program?  Or, is Keith still
> around?

On behalf of both my good friend Mr. Keith, and myself:  AIIGGH :-) !  Yes,
I've seen it run -- he wrote it a *long* time ago for his home 4105.  For
those of you who are wondering whether you are interested in this (which is
why I posted the reply instead of mailing it), you aren't.  Although it *is*
probably the best UNIX window manager ever written for the 4105 :-) :-).
Keith Packard is now with the MIT X Consortium (writing *real* UNIX window
managers :-) -- try "keith@expo.lcs.mit.edu".  I think he still has the bits
floating around on his home 6200 somewhere -- maybe you can persuade him to
dredge them up.  I'll ask him about it when I talk to him next...  What fun!

					Bart Massey
					TV Systems Engineering
					M.S. 58-639
					627-5320
					bart@videovax.tv.tek.com