Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!turnpike!argv From: argv%turnpike@Sun.COM (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: xmush? Message-ID: <131278@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Feb 90 00:52:01 GMT References: <349@icjapan.uucp> <48778707.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: argv@sun.UUCP (Dan Heller) Lines: 36 In article <48778707.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> chen@digital.sps.MOT.COM (Jinfu Chen) writes: > In article <349@icjapan.uucp> jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb) writes: > >It is nice that there is a graphical version of mush available under > >sunview, but now that we in the Unix community have a standard in the way of > >the X Window System, it would be nice to have an 'xmush' for those of us > >without Suns. Any volunteers to write the code? > > If a xmush is ever to be written, I'd prefer it using Xlib/Xt instead of other > higher level GUI like Motif and XView. This may put more burden to the code > writer but it will help porting xmush into various platform easily. > Consider Dan's experience in X (moderator of comp.sources.x, author of XView > books), I wouldn't be surprised a version xmush is already in work :-) Since XView is very similar to SunView, and since there is a Mushview, the first thing you're going to see is an XView version of mush. After that, who knows... the point is, Mush is something that is done in Bart and Mine's spare time -- until someone is willing to "buy" or license mush (e.g. "finance it"), things are going to continue to go slowly, but not stop. Also, people have obviously noticed that my signature indicates that I am working for O'Reilly Associates. sorry for not having announced this earlier, but it's been a slow and gradual process. I have left Island Graphics and am now working for ORA -- my email address to island is no longer there -- I get my mail at argv@sun.com (don't ask how that came about) or argv@monet.berkeley.edu. Please continue to send administrative mail to mush-users-request@garp.mit.edu (many of you got in the habit of mailing me directly). dan ----------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly && Associates argv@sun.com / argv@ora.com 632 Petaluma Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472 800-338-NUTS, in CA: 800-533-NUTS, FAX 707-829-0104