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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!uunet!ulowell!cs.uml.edu!oneill From: oneill@cs.uml.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Motif for XFree86? Date: 9 Aug 1993 16:58:26 GMT Organization: UMass-Lowell Computer Science Lines: 21 Message-ID: <245vni$mf2@ulowell.uml.edu> References: <1993Aug9.145733.20075@julian.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.uml.edu In article <1993Aug9.145733.20075@julian.uwo.ca> aganguli@irus.rri.uwo.ca (Ami Ganguli) writes: >Hi folks, > I haven't noticed a Motif window manager for 386bsd anywhere. It seems >to me that this would be one of the first things to be built for XFree86 >unless there is some practical reason not to. > Is Motif available for XFree86? How hard would it be for me to just >download the source and compile it myself? > > Thanks in Advance, > Ami Ganguli. > aganguli@irus.rri.uwo.ca Motif and the Motif Window Manager are licensed products from the Open Software Foundation, and are not freely available. You owuld need to purchase the source and build it yourself (expensive) or purchase a compiled version from a vendor (don't know of one for 386BSD). ======================================================================= Brian O'Neill - Systems Manager, Computer Science (508) 934-3645 University of Massachusetts at Lowell Internet: oneill@cs.uml.edu Moderator, comp.binaries.ibm.pc