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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GUI WARS!
Message-ID: <6362@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 19:39:38 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>They are just application libraries.  If you buy a binary package that
>"needs" motif, the only thing it should really need to execute are the
>applications defaults file, etc.  It won't need the libraries, include
>files, etc, etc.  You only need those things if you are developing
>code that uses the UI libraries.

Or if the binary package was linked, on systems supporting shared
libraries, with *shared* versions of the OL/Motif/whatever libraries,
rather than having its very own N hundred KB copy of the libraries in
its executable image....