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From: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Are the saved seconds worth the lost hours? (Was: Build complete LaTeX from source?)
Date: 20 Sep 1995 02:11:58 -0400
Organization: Internex Online (Data: 363-3783/Telnet: io.org)
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Message-ID: <43obbe$gji@ionews.io.org>
References: <437eac$n68@mailnews.kub.nl> <439e1m$5oc@atusks02.aut.alcatel.at> <43ifl2$ckd@Radon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <43ifl2$ckd@Radon.Stanford.EDU>, Vaughan R. Pratt <pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
>
>I see maxima there (great), but where are geomview, ephem, and
>cyberphone??? Now if only they were there I could start to imagine
>switching from Linux. ;)
A few people tried porting geomview to FreeBSD, but you need Motif
to build it (limiting the number of people who will attempt the port)
and the stumbling block is its use of incompatible members in the
struct FILE data type. I have had it running on a Sparc displaying
both to its console and to my FreeBSD box... it looks nice, but I
wouldn't use it on anything other than an SGI. :)
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"