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From: bruss@odin.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ)
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Subject: XView info/opinions
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Date: 5 Dec 90 01:54:40 GMT
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	We are looking into porting some of our SunViews applications into
X.  We could simply rewrite them using Xlib or (preferably for me)
InterViews, but then I heard about XView.  It's my understanding that
XView, in addition to being a full-fledged X toolkit, was designed
to facilitate converting SunViews applications to X -- even to the
extent that (this is where my memory or understanding may be way off)
there exists a translator that converts SunViews calls to XView calls,
and that this translator is part of the XView package.
	Is my understanding at all correct?  If so, what are your opinions
on XView?  If not, are there other ways of "quickly" porting SunViews
applications to X?  I presume that XView maintains it's own look-and-
feel, close to SunView and not close to, say, Motif or OpenLook --
this is not important to us, though we more or less want to stay away
from OpenLook.
	Any help would be appreciated, including XView's availability/price
etc.



-- 
Brian Russ
CSE Department, UC San Diego
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