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From: benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Is NeWS UseABLE?
Message-ID: <2139@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 03:27:38 GMT
References: <2135@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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in article <2135@ssc-vax.UUCP>, dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) says:
>     I will soon be writing a graphical interface to Unix for Sun
> workstations.  Recently I received NeWS, and have been playing with
> it for about a week or so.
>     I'm trying to figure out whether or not NeWS is mature enough to
> for such a project. 

Why not ? Certainly others are writing NeWS-based applications...Sun
itself recently released an IBM 3270 emulator that runs under NeWS.
However, NeWS 1.1 remains an unsupported product and that may figure
in your thinking...(for that matter X remains an unsupported product
also..) Sun will release an X/NeWS merged product soon...
(Silicon Graphics incidentally already has an X/NeWS window system
which according to the net traffic works better with NeWS than X...:-)
  
> that I can only run NeWS in - yuck.  If I run SunView application
> inside of NeWS, I get an unsightly border around the SunView
> application.  I'd like to be able to just run a NeWS application
> inside of SunView, in a window that looks and behaves just like a
> SunView window.
It sounds like you are anticipating 4.1 when NeWS, X and Sunview 
windows will cohabitate the screen peacefully...for the moment you'll
have to live with the white edging on your Sunview windows 

I generally have some of the same gripes about type-ahead that you
have however i realize that 1) the product is unsupported and 2)
provides me with an initial development environment while i wait for
the supported NeWS/X window system.

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