From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 16:37:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27400 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27394 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:37:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA36471; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:34:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:34:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Daniel Eischen cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XiG Motif - FreeBSD ELF In-Reply-To: <199901120010.TAA14807@pcnet1.pcnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > I sent an Email off to Xig inquiring about a FreeBSD ELF version of > the Accelerated X server and Motif. The response was: > > > Dan, > > Unfortunately, we don't yet support ELF, and we haven't decided > > yet if we're going to. I will let engineering know that you would > > like support for 3.0, but I can't promise that we'll be supporting it. > > I apologize for the inconvenience. > > If others, like me, would really like an ELF version of Motif and the > Accelerated X server, please send your requests to Xig (sales@xig.com). > > Feel free to re-post this to another list if -current isn't deemed > appropriate. I started bugging them about it months ago, and last month I finally got advised that they had no plans to introduce any elf Motif at all. Until then, they gave me that same response I got from you. I wasn't endlessly bugging them, just a polite reminder about once every 45 days. They sound like a lost cause to me. You can forward this to them if you want. > > Dan Eischen > eischen@vigrid.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message