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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 09:00:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Charles Green wrote:

> } HOWEVER, a significant amount of work went into it in the past (with the
> } 16 bit version), which means that we could introduce a 32-bit version
> } cross-platform toolkit (no xwin emulator for now) with a few more weeks
> } of work.

AFAIK, the port should of everything (including xwin) should not be very
difficult for their programmers.  It seems to me that support for FreeBSD
just isn't on their agenda.

Anyone want to take a crack at getting the Linux version working on
-current?  I don't think it will be easy, but it should be possible.


Sujal