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Subject: Re: Net access to motif? Is this a goofy idea or what?
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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Gary Kline wrote:

> 	Closer and closer.  The Hungry Programmers are also working
> 	on XWord, which may be close to Word.  Or maybe not!  Anyway,
> 	hats off to the Lesstif bunch.
> 
> 	When Lesstif is good enough to replace Motif, I'd be willing
> 	to do some of the ports.
> 

mwm seems to be working ok. It has been running few a few weeks on 2.1.5. 
All the configuration data and menus we use on HP machines at work run 
with no problems. Porting apps to the final product should be a 
relatively straight forward procedure.

Maybe then we can eliminate those X programs with weird interfaces and 
have a friendly consistent interface.

Regards ...