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From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
Subject: Re: [386bsd] need motif
In-Reply-To: mattb@sdd.hp.com's message of 16 Dec 1992 18:01:14 GMT
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Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
References: <1274@zogwarg.etl.army.mil> <1gnqtaINNenu@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:52:27 GMT
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>>>>> In article <1gnqtaINNenu@hpsdlss3.sdd.hp.com>, mattb@sdd.hp.com (Matt Bonner) writes:
Matt> The basic answer is that since I don't think anyone is selling Motif
Matt> binaries for 386bsd (can anyone correct me on this?) you have to buy a 
Matt> source license through OSF.  Depending on what you are doing it will 
Matt> either be $2000 or $15,000, last I heard.

This was reposted yesterday to comp.windows.x.i386unix by
montra@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (Paolo Montrasio).  Rich

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*                    OSF/Motif 1.1.2 for 386BSD-0.1                    *
*                                                                      *
*                            Ported by                                 *
*                          Enrico Badella                              *
*                         Soft*Star s.r.l.                             *
*                         Via Camburzano 9                             *
*                           10143 Torino                               *
*                              ITALY                                   *

OSF/Motif 1.1.2 is finally available for 386BSD-0.1

The distribution is BINARY ONLY and is NOT FREE because of OSF licensing
policy and royalty payment scheme.

The cost of OSF/Motif for 386BSD is $120 + postage. This is the lowest
fee I could come up with to cover all the expenses mainly due to 
royalties to OSF and cartridge tapes.

I have organized the following distribution tree:

    bin:
    mwm*	mxgdb*	uil*	xgen*
    
    include:
    Mrm/	Xm/	uil/
    
    lib:
    X11/	libMrm.a	libUil.a	libXm.a
    
    lib/X11:
    XKeysymDB	app-defaults/	config.Motif/	system.mwmrc
    
    demos:
    Imakefile	 hellohebrew/	motifburger/	mre/		widgetView/
    Makefile	 hellokanji/	motifburint/	periodic/	xmsamplers/
    dogs/	 hellomotif/	motifgif/	periodickanji/
    fonts/	 motifanim/	motifshell/	uilsymdump/
    
    xgenDemos:
    Example	Xgen.intro	dp.xbm		mtn.xbm
    README.EX	address.list	gnu.xbm

The size of the distribution is a little over 18M.

As you will probably have noted I have included all the demos released
by OSF and two non OSF applications. One is mxgdb, a OSF/Motif frontend
to gdb written by jtsillas@sprite.ma30.bull.com. The other is xgen,
a very usefull tool for creating graphical frontends to shell scripts
or other Unix programs; xgen was written by kurt@zorro.cecer.army.mil.

Everything is ready to run; you just have to extract the tape in
your X11 installation.

I can offer email, fax, phone (the order represents preference) support 
for initial installation problems. There shouldn't be any since I've
been using it for a while with 386BSD 0.1.40 kernel available on 
agate.berkeley.edu. I didn't try the binary distribution of XFree86
but used MIT X11R5 patchlevel 17 source tree + XFree86.

If you have questions or are interested in purchasing OSF/Motif for 386BSD
please contact me at

	Soft*Star s.r.l
	Via Camburzano 9
	10143 Torino
	Italy

	phone +39-11-746092
	fax   +39-11-746487
	email eb@icnucevx.cnuce.cnr.it 	(preferred)
	      eb@felix.sublink.org

Just a last note. Please don't start a flame war about commercial use
of usenet. I don't want (and won't) become rich with this operation, my main
activity is completely different. I'm just very please with 386BSD
(it's great!) and it would be nice to turn it in a new ODT; I'll soon
start investigating the portability of Postgres or OBST on 386BSD.

Thank you for your patience.
-- 
Enrico Badella				Internet: eb@felix.sublink.org
Soft*Star s.r.l.			          eb@icnucevx.cnuce.cnr.it
Via Camburzano 9			Phone:    +39-11-746092
10143 Torino, ITALY			Fax:      +39-11-746487