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Ooops - There's me talking about something I know little of ...

Three notices...

1) Thanks to Guy Harris for putting me in my place:

>>EZ	  - If we could install it I think this would be the
>>	favourite. It is simple, easy to use, and fast. The real
>>	draw-back is that it runs under Atehna's OS - Andrew.
>
>Err, umm, what?
>
>"Andrew" refers to a project at Carnegie Mellon University; a couple of
>things with "Andrew" in the name came out of that project:
>1) the Andrew File System, a distributed file system;
>2) the Andrew Toolkit, a window system toolkit (and a window system
>   platform atop which that toolkit runs).
>
>AFS is now a commercial product from Transarc; I don't think it was ever
>generally-available except as a licensed product (some folks got it, but
>I don't think there was ever a place from you could FTP it, for
>example).
>
>ATK has been generally-available for a while; it runs not only atop the
>WM window system done at CMU (a network window system along the general
>lines of X), but atop X11 as well.
>
>There isn't any OS named "Andrew" that I know of, and it's not connected
>with Project Athena (some folks in that group at MIT use ATK, but that's
>the only connection I know of).
>Presumably, you meant to say "the real drawback is that it runs under
>CMU's Andrew Toolkit window-system toolkit".


2) Suggestion for getting EZ to work from Bill Jannsen:

>Andrew is big, but you don't need to install everything to have EZ
>work.  Build the basic "runapp" program (in atk/apps/, which includes
>the text editor and EZ), put it in a directory, give it a symlink name
>"ez", make a dummy empty directory called /foo/dlib/atk, set the
>environment var ANDREWDIR to "/foo", unsetenv CLASSPATH, and run "ez".
>The editor will come up just find, and you can edit to your heart's
>content.  Styles and everything work.  If you find you want to include
>some other things (such as embedded bitmaps), just change the list of
>things that get linked into the runapp image.


3) And also thanks to Bill for putting me in contact with Bill Catey who has
kindly offered to help us get EZ (and just EZ) working here. In his own words,
he is the "Chief integrater of the CMU Andrew Toolkit into the MIT Athena
Computing Environment", "aka Chief cook and bottle washer of EZ at MIT...".
I promise to post the results/opinions a.s.a.p. but this may take a few weeks...

-Alistair