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From: tomj@snowking.Eng.Sun.COM (Tom Jacobs)
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Subject: Re: XView info/opinions
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Date: 6 Dec 90 20:42:12 GMT
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In article <14718@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, bruss@odin.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ) writes:
|> 
|> 	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
|> ..!sdcsvax!bruss	bruss@beowulf.ucsd.edu

Your understandings are correct.  The "translator" is a collection of
shell scripts called `convert_to_xview'.  There is also a manual that
Sun produces named, "XView Version 2 Reference Manual: Converting
SunView Applications" (Part No.800-4836-10) that you can get from Sun
at a nominal cost.  The source to XView 2.0 is on expo.lcs.mit.edu and
the cost is $0.  There are no licensing or royalty fees.  Period.  
You can get XView libaries in compiled/loadable form for Sun, DEC, IBM
and HP.  Other non-commercial ports are available too.

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