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To: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Mosaic-2.6, 2.7b4 & Xm.h 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 1996 06:49:50 EDT."
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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
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Gary Palmer                                            FreeBSD Core Team Member
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