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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Brett Taylor wrote:

> > Ughh...AFAIK Amaya requires Thot-libs, which run (more or less) with
> > Lesstif. Once ported with lesstif (I don't have Motif either), the
> > committer will take care that it works with Motif.
> 
> All I know is that according to their web pages that it hasn't been ported
> to Lesstif and I have neither the time or, probably, the technical know
> how to get the source converted to use Lesstif.

Well, at one level, you do have the knowhow, because you shouldn't have to
change anything to use Lesstif, it's only when you encounter
bugs/inadequacies in Lesstif that you need to change anything. The latest
version of Lesstif has surprized me with how much it works with.