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Article #47866Re: Motif 2.x of 1.x ?
From: Erik de Castro Lopo
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:00
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Regit Young wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> Thinking of getting a motif toolkit, but unsure what would be better
> supported, 1.x or 2.x. Saw a couple for Linux, all are 2.x, while most
> commercial Unicies are using 1.x . Is there compatibility issues in
> writing 2.x apps and run with 1.x? Also, aside from OSF, who does Motif
> 1.x?
Before you fork out money on a real Motif, have a look at lesstif
(www.lesstif.org) which is a GPL version. This will allow you to write
programs that everyone in the Linux community can use.
Erik
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Peter F. Curran : Microsoft. Still delivering a text editor with
Win95/98 that can only open a max 64K file, despite being on
a machine with an 8Gig HD and 64M of ram....
G Cook: Perhaps, but Notepad is still the most functional program
in the whole suite!
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