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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: What is happening with MGR
Summary: MGR discontinued (?)
Keywords: MGR, mgr from BellCore
Message-ID: <518@ics.COM>
Date: 15 May 89 17:25:36 GMT
References: <104192@sun.Eng.Sun.COM< <819@stag.UUCP<
Distribution: usa
Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions Inc., Cambridge MA
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In article <819@stag.UUCP<, trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes:
< In article <104192@sun.Eng.Sun.COM< anantha%ravi@Sun.COM (Anantha Srirama) writes:
< <A while back Bell Communcation Research (bellcore) posted a window manager
< <called 'mgr'.  I use it everyday and think it is really nice.  I haven't
< <seen any talk/discussion about this window manager in any of the comp.windows
< <or comp.sources news group.  Does anybody out there have anything to say about
< <this??
< 
< I used it a lot, too (back when I had access to a Sun.) I added
< limited support to my folding editor for MGR and sent a copy to the
< author of MGR, but haven't heard anything since. Since I no longer
< have access to a Sun, does anyone out there who uses MGR want to do
< a quick test compile of my editor?  I just want to make sure that my
< #ifdef MGR stuff is still up to date and functional before I release
< the code.

The last I heard from people at Bellcore was that the fellow who did
MGR a few years back (in his spare time, as I recall) has since moved
on to other things. The Bellcore folks are facing internal support
problems and are considering moving on to other things (X, especially).

None of this is firm.
-- 
David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu