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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
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Subject: Re: Sun shared libs - openwin vs MIT R4
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Date: 9 May 91 13:12:05 GMT
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>    John, I think the permanent solution is to use only the MIT's
>libraries.

I did this at first, but my users had various bizarre problems that seemed
to go away when I put Sun's libraries down.

>  For Xt and Xaw, no problem, Sun didn't change anything
>so your Xt and Xaw is bound to be better.

I've heard that Sun's Xt has some R3 left in it.


What I've settled on is to have a script called "orun":

	#!/bin/sh
	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
	LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/lib/X11"
	eval `/usr/openwin/bin/svenv -env`
	exec $*

that I tell my users to use to run xview binaries against a normal server.

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