Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 18:58:25 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> Cc: Freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Mosaic-2.6, 2.7b4 & Xm.h Message-ID: <25602.830973505@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 1996 06:49:50 EDT." <Pine.SUN.3.91.960501064255.28649A-100000@panix.com>
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Barry Masterson wrote in message ID <Pine.SUN.3.91.960501064255.28649A-100000@panix.com>: > > Mosaic needs Motif in order to be compiled. Xm is the Motif include > > files... Motif is a commercial product. See the Vendors page on > > www.freebsd.org to see who sells motif for FreeBSD (AFAIR the > > currently recommended one is X Inside, http://www.xinside.com/) > Thats horrible, how did this happen? I have to buy a commercial in order > to use this free product? There must be some way around this. Does this > apply to Chimera? Is Netscape the only game in town? And this Motif, > does it come with the source code? In order: . Motif probably provided a better widget set than the freely available ones for what the programmers wanted. It's also a `de-facto' UI standard. . Yes. . Not AFAIR. I seem to remember Chimera uses either the Athena widgets or the plain X Toolkit interface. Both are standard parts of X windows. . Unless you have Motif, sort of. Statically linked versions of Mosaic can normally be found in ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/ . Nope. Source for Motif is extra. A lot extra. It's just a programming interface (i.e. a set of include files and a library, or rather 2 libraries, one static (a .a) and one shared (a .so.foo.bar)) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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