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Date:      Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:43:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 use of libgnumalloc
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971027124248.11899L-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971027103053.34372@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>

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On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Chuck Robey scribbled this message on Oct 27:
> > On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> > 
> > >  * I just releaded the XiG motif, that's where that sucker came from!  I'll
> > >  * write them .... I had to order new media from them, my original floppies
> > >  * turned out to be unreadable ... they only charged me $10 for the new cdrom
> > >  * media, thought that was fair, and they've _really_ improved their install
> > >  * script, but I guess there's more to go.
> > > 
> > > Yeah.  XiG doesn't appear to be overly interested (to put it mildly)
> > > about XFree86 compatibility,
> > 
> > Well, they sell their own server, so they're in competetition with
> > XFree86, I guess.  They're polite about it, I guess, so maybe it's
> > expected.
> 
> yeh... but you have to use XFree86's clients don't you?? or is Xig now
> releasing clients with their server?

I dunno, I only bought their Motif package.  It works well, installs 
badly.

> 
> -- 
>   John-Mark Gurney                          Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954
>   Cu Networking
> 
>   Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
> 
> 

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