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From: n62274@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de (Kl.Schaefers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: I _compiled_ olvwm on 0.9, anyone else?
Date: 3 Sep 93 15:43:41 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
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veit@mururoa.gmd.de (Holger Veit) writes:

>n62274@pbhrzx.uni-paderborn.de (Kl.Schaefers) writes:

>[.on compiling olvwm.]
>BTW: I, as well as several people succeeded in compiling olwm/olvwm
>quite a long time ago (about one year now)... Everyone seems to
>solve the same problems on and on and on.

yes, this seems to be a typical problem. The common known ftp server all
have the same minimal stuff and every bsd ler builts his System alone.
Why not putting more and more sources to berkeley sites ?

>>I`am wondering, why so less people here are interested in xview3.X .
>>Or are they talking about netbsd / XFree / xview3.X in other groups ?
>Regarding netbsd: this group is quite right.
>Regarding Xfree: try comp.windows.x.i386unix.
>Regarding xview3.X: try to compile this yourself. After heavy patching in
already subscibed :-)

>the style of what you have just found with olvwm (in particular with
>stdio (!)) you can get it compile. But you will find that textedit and
>cmdtool/shelltool won't work. If you want to contribute something
yes, the do not. I rsh them from another machine :-(

(...)

Thanx 
Klaus
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