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From: dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Motif
Date: 13 Dec 1993 05:05:12 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- InterNetNews site
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In article <hastyCHy922.GDK@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
>---excerpt from terry's post--------------------
>I ftp'd what is claimed to be the first public domain version of Motif 
>from somewhere in austrailia.  I dont have it online right now but I will
>post the location of it as soon as I get some time as I am right in the middle
>of finals.  I hope to find time by friday.  The name of the file was xmfm????
>something.  I cannot remember exactly.  It is somewhere in .oz.
>
>---------------------------------------------------
>
>Has anyone been able to find motif clone yet? I have not been able
>to located it. I did find something by that name but I don't think
>is a motif clone.

This sounds a lot like xmfm, which was written by some guy at the
University of Canberra (sorry, forget the name).  xmfm is a Motif file
manager.  It's not a Motif library, it's an application which requires
Motif.  Available as ftp.x.org:contrib/xmfm.1.8-beta.tar.Z.

 - Dave Cottingham
   dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov