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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK announced first (was: Re: Motif/Openlook, is there a trend?
Message-ID: <5858@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 01:46:16 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>>The choice of OpenLook toolkits is a critical advantage.
>>The XView toolkit allows for a migration of over 2,800 (!) existing
>>SunView applications. Such a migration is not really
>That's nice if I have any, but I don't, so it's not really relevant.

Not really relevant to you, and to those who don't have SunView
applications, at least.  Others *do* have them, so it may be relevant.

However:

1) I don't know to what extent this is *intrinsic* to OPEN LOOK - i.e.,
   I don't know how much effort would be involved in making a
   Motif-compliant XView, nor whether it would be easier or harder to
   convert SunView applications to Motif-XView applications than to
   convert them to current-XView applications.  (The XView source is
   available; start hacking away. :-))

2) I saw a claim somewhere that there exists, or will soon exist, a tool
   to convert SunView applications to Motif-Xt (or "-lXm", if you will)
   applications.  Dunno how well that'll work relative to converting
   them to XView applcations.