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From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (R. Stewart Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Seeking Mosaic binary for BSD/386!
Date: 28 Dec 93 14:36:47 GMT
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
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pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

 >>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 1993 07:30:04 GMT, corywest@tango.hou.tx.us (Cory
 >>>> Richard David West) said:

 >Cory> 	I have BSD/386, but no Motif and would really like to use
 >Cory> Mosaic for network surfing.

 >There are two alternatives: tkWWW (available from any tcl/tk anon FTP
 >site) uses tcl/tk, which are the proper BSD alternative to Motif, and
 >Mosaic2.0-Xaw (available from most NCSA anon FTP mirrors) that is Eric
 >Bina's proof-of-concept Xaw version of Mosaic. It is 2.0, but I think
 >you can merge the diffs back into 2.1 fairly easily.

I snarfed Eric's Athena version of Mosaic as soon as I read about it, src
and bin for Sun4.  When I tried to run the bin I was quite discouraged to
discover that I could reliably crash Mosaic-Xaw by pulling down the options
menu (or wherever the fonts are) and trying to select a button.  I have not
tried to compile it myself.  I have not posted in the obvious places about
this because of the intense amount of noise that gets generated everytime
anyone criticises the Motif choice of Marc and Eric.

I find it extremely funny that Marc tried to justify the choice of Motif
to me when I questioned it on News about a year ago by saying that the rich
selection of widgets made the programming much easier, then Eric was able to
port it back to Xaw in 10 hours.  If it works (worked?) under Xaw I would
MUCH prefer to use it than contribute to OSF even in an indirect fashion.

Is there anyone successfully using Mosaic-Xaw on any platform without it
crashing when you try the font selection?


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