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From: shap@sequent.COM (Shap Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Motif 1.1 and R4 Xlib not compatible
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Date: 26 Sep 90 05:14:03 GMT
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>       Jim Gettys said, in one of his less oblique postings, that he would get
>       fix-15 out soon.
>
>   Jim Gettys does not work here.  Perhaps you meant someone else.
>
>       The Motif patch is fix-15.  You just got it the fast way.
>
>   It is seldom the case that non-MIT people should attempt to speak for MIT.
>   I don't know for certain that "the Motif patch" will be byte-for-byte
>   identical to any "fix-15" that we might put out.  I can only think of
>   one person here at MIT that does know for certain.  Perhaps you asked him,
>   I don't know.

I think that the important question is not whether or not the things will be
byte-for-byte identical, but rather:

a)  Will there be a "fix-15" patch coming out?

b)  Will it contain fixes for the bugs corresponding to the patches that the
    OSF is supplying with Motif 1.1?


					Shap


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