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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
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Subject: Re:  OSF statements about OPEN LOOK
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Date: 5 Sep 90 16:01:03 GMT
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>>In July 1990 it was also running on DECstations.
>
>If it's handy, could you give me a reference for this?  I'd like to
>run Open Look on a DS3100.

You can reference me.  I took the source from expo.lcs, applied the patches
for the DECstation and tried building it.  After that I found the comment
about the way the Ultrix/DS3100 C compiler treats void and tried again --
this time it worked.  The only other trick to this was that DEC do not
use .snf fonts but their own font format (actually I think that this is
a display PostScript format) so you have to substitute their font compiler
for the standard X11 compiler: I didn't see this mentioned in the
documentation (Sun may have been assuming that you would build XView for
X11R4 rather than DECwindows).

There are currently two problems if you want to get XView onto a DECstation.
The first is that DECwindows has a X11R3 server so that you need the file
giving pre-R4 ICCCM support which appears to be missing from the xview2
source distribution (see several previous xpert mailings).  The second is
that the xview2 patches for the DECstation haven't been released yet.
My recollection of the DECstation patches is that they messed with 
configuration files rather than the code, so it is possible that specific
DECstation patches are not necessary for XView rev 2.

The DECstation patches for the first release of XView seemed to appear
fairly quickly so it probably easiest to keep an eye on the contrib area
on expo.lcs over the next month or so and wait for Sun to pull their finger
out and post a patch to XView.

			Chris Flatters