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From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley	)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif 1.1 and R4 Xlib not compatible
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.152947.320@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 25 Sep 90 15:29:47 GMT
References: <997@pan.UUCP>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <997@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
>
>I brought this up some time ago, when Motif 1.1 was announced.  Several
>people at the OSF said very clearly that Motif 1.1 would be based on
>the standard MIT Xt.

It is.

> [some deleted]
>So, I would like to know what the real story here is.  Is this simply
>a case of a delay at MIT?  I've seen a couple of ablique references
>in postings from there to a patch 15 - perhaps this will inlcude the
>OSF fixes?  Or is this just another case of the OSF assuming that they
>can do whatever they want, and everyone else will just have to go along
>with them?

Jim Gettys said, in one of his less oblique postings, that he would get
fix-15 out soon.

>As I said before, I absolutely don't want to be put in the position of
>having to keep two complete, incompatible, copies of Xt around.

The Motif patch is fix-15.  You just got it the fast way.