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From: pa@appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: File locations on AIX (was Re: xshofonts.c on RS/6000)
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.155356.6709@appmag.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 15:53:56 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.195442.12603@cs.utk.edu> <6163@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Mar28.173636.16572@cs.utk.edu>
Organization: R&D, Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA
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jxt@cpdws1.ctd.ornl.gov writes:

>Now for the next question. Why are things like this scattered all over the
>place? And, more importantly, just where are useful things like this
>scattered?

Gee, I hate to take IBM's side, but... :-)
Probably because they're not supported.  The  Athena  widget  set
was written as a proof of concept as much as anything else.  Most
vendors support some other user interface, e.g. Motif.

Finding stuff is always tricky.  After InfoExplorer has failed, I
often run something like this:

  $ : Find all the *README* files, output to file 'junk'.
  $ nice -12 find / -name '*README*' -print > junk 2>&1 &

--Pierre Asselin, R&D, Applied Magnetics.  I speak for me.