From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 25 13:34:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07508 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07476 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:33:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17830; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:33:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd017774; Fri Sep 25 13:33:44 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14310; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:33:33 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809252033.NAA14310@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 19980921-BETA: more comments To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:33:33 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, obrien@NUXI.com, bright@hotjobs.com, beyssac@enst.fr, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <23513.906706218@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 24, 98 11:50:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > There isn't an ELF version of the Motif libs yet. > > > > > > Very soon now... > > > > Since it's no longer available, the cat isn't there in the bag anyway... > > Since what is no longer available, Motif? Several companies would beg > to differ (strongly) with your assertion. Motif is still very much > available in a.out format and at least 2 companies that I know of plan > to make ELF versions (of Motif 2.1) available for 3.0 in the near > future. I also expect at least one or two versions of Motif 1.2 for > ELF to surface inexplicably here and there, even if none of the > commercial folks attempt to support it. :-) > > If, on the other hand, you've somehow inexplicably strayed from our > discussion of Motif into something like CDE, well, all I can say is > "Geeze, at least try to stay on the same bloody topic if you're going > to rebutt something." Free copies of ELF Motif libraries are no longer available... For a while, you could download the full CDE, including Motif 2.0, from Sun Microsystems, for free. The download included the full ELF Motif library set and all header files, as well as MWM and all of the other CDE components. The evidence is still available from Altavista: http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&kl=XX&q=%2BCDE+%2BSolaris+%2Bdownload ... 4. The Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Free Offer - Release 1.0.2 [URL: www.sun.com/solaris/cde/download/] The Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Free Offer - Release 1.0.2 Last modified 17-Jul-98 - page size 11K - in English [ Translate ] Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message