From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 29 15:18:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA09862 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 15:18:31 -0700 Received: from quirk.com (root@quirk.com [198.82.204.56]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA09856 ; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 15:18:28 -0700 Received: (from cstruble@localhost) by quirk.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA04281; Thu, 29 Jun 1995 18:18:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 18:18:48 -0400 From: Craig Struble Message-Id: <199506292218.SAA04281@quirk.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A little off-topic, but.. Fresco? In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, June 29, 1995 23:09:38 +0100 References: <199506292102.RAA03854@quirk.com> <256.804463778@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, June 29, 1995 at 23:09:38 (+0100), Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Hmmm. Well, all I can say is that I got Fresco and all of the > applications for it on the contrib tape but one to work, but I was > still disappointed with their lack of quality and the fact that they > seemed to use _athena_ widgets for all GUI objects! Are there no > clothes on the Fresco emperor or what? ;-) > Well, the best that can be said is that they give the appearance that Fresco works. The real test is having dish work. With all the static constructors floating around, and with the ld.so in 2.0.5, dish blows up quickly (and button gives me funky garbage, even with the ld.so changes that Doug made). After Doug's patches, dish works perfectly. That give me a warm fuzzy (or was that the homebrew I'm about to grab :-). The Fresco version I have doesn't look like Athena at all. Looks almost NeXTish to me. Maybe the new version does better. You have a direct connection to the Internet, right? I can plop a window up on your screen if you like. See ya later, Craig -- Craig Struble - Grad Student, Consultant, | World's most versatile C program Student ACM Co-President, Virginia Tech | (*nix version) Email - cstruble@vt.edu | URL - http://acm.vt.edu/~cstruble/ | #include "/dev/tty"