From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 21 16:42:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA12290 for current-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:42:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.16.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA12285; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28920; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:41:46 -0700 (PDT) To: Andreas Klemm cc: Jake Hamby , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Way In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:27:52 +0200." Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:41:46 -0700 Message-ID: <28918.835400506@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message , Andreas Klem m writes: >On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Andreas Klemm wrote: >> >> > Generally I share your sight, but even SunSofts Solaris 2.x uses >> > tk in the main system... >> >> Uh, no... Solaris uses Motif for installation, etc.. TCL and Tk are a >> product of SunLabs, yes, but they haven't seen fit to include either into >> Solaris (at least, not as of Solaris 2.5). > >Hmm, I thought, that many sysadmin tools were written in tk... >admintool, swmtool ... Am I so wrong ??? no, you are right. Sun were one of the first companies to embrace tcl/tk. They even made an incredibly bogus openwin version of tk. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.