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From: jayd@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Jay A. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: motif from Dec vs MIT
Keywords: Digital, VMS
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.092652@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 90 14:26:52 GMT
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In article <1720@riscy.enet.dec.com>, graham@fuel.dec.com (kris graham) writes:
|> > How much has DEC changed MOTIF ?  If one gets the MIT version is it
|> > runnable under VMS ?
|> 
|> MIT does not distribute OSF/Motif.  You're probably thinking
|> about the Open Software Foundation (OSF).
|> 
|> >DEC is currently shipping a VMS version of Motif based on OSF's version
|> >1.0. It is VERY buggy and does not locate bitmap files properly. 
|> 
|> If you see bugs, you must  report them to Digital directly so they
|> can be fixed.
Why the heck can't DEC test their own products before they are shipped???
Dec trashed the Xt with DECwindows and now it seems that they have slimed
the MOTIF toolkit???  GREAT!!!  I would hope that DEC would want to be
compatible with the rest of the industry and not leave things out or rename
them to other areas like they did with DECwindows.  I hope that when we write
an application on a SUN (god forbid) system running OSF's MOTIF that we can
ftp it to our DEC systems and have the code compile link and run. This is 
the type of trouble we have had with the DECwindows version of X11.  I hope
DEC gets MOTIF fixed up before they "make it their standard windows interface".
|> 
|> Christopher Graham          
|> Digital Equipment Corp            
|> Ultrix Resource Center                                             
|> New York City
|> 
|> Internet: graham@fuel.enet.dec.com 
|> UUCP:     ...!decwrl!fuel.enet.dec.com!graham


Jay Davis
Center for Analysis
and Prediction of Storms
University of Oklahoma.
Internet:  Jay@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu

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