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From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Docs for tNt, & what is Sun doing?
Summary: I've gotten the tNt docs from Sun
Message-ID: <12637@ulysses.att.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 14:25:48 GMT
References: <9002271110.AA01403@aida.canon.co.uk>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <9002271110.AA01403@aida.canon.co.uk>, laukee@canon.UUCP (David Lau-Kee) writes:
! Has anyone managed to get hold of any tNt documentation?  I mailed a sun 
! address a few months ago which purported to be offering docs, got a reply,
! and I am still waiting.  All I have is the codebook and SimpletNt stuff
! which came off an archive server somewhere.  Is that it?
! [...]

Hmm, I sent away for the docs a few months ago too.  A few days later
I got an email message about them not being ready yet.  About a month
later, they came in the mail.  Mabee the person who was mailing them
left Sun?  Supposedly, several people have left the windowing lab.

! Does any of the above matter?  Recent moves inside Sun suggest that the
! %%% REMINDS %%% inside NeWS/OL*.ps might just sum up the future of NeWS, just
! a memory of some unfinished business. Since the person who put them there may
! be one of those who have moved from Sun I guess "easy migration between
! platforms" rings true at last. Come on Sun, SORT IT OUT!!! We're getting
! seriously pissed off at your reluctance to show any commitment to NeWS.
! [...]

I've managed to get all my NeWS 1.1 stuff running under OpenWindows,
and even ported much of it to tNt, but there are still lots of bugs.
Worst of all, the server is _s_l_o_w_.  Sun claims that the
"officially ready for prime-time" version will be out in June, but
that may be too late.  Besides, they claimed that the X/NeWS server
would be ready in "Spring 1988" - look in the NeWS Technical Overview.
-- 
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