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Article #1099Re: Owplaces/Xtoolplaces? in SW 3.0?
From: Vincent S. Cojot
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00
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In article <4m89kf$ihe$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com>, Chris Stevens <72711.2545@CompuServe.COM> writes: >I am running Slackware 3.0 Linux. I have installed X11 with >Xview. I am starting X with "openwin". According to the Man >page, "openwin" looks for .openwin-init which is created by >owplaces. According to the Man page, "owplaces" is a script >which calls "xtoolplaces". Although, I have a man page for >xtoolplaces, I do not have a binary. I checked sunsite.unc.edu >and tsx-11.mit.edu and neither have xtoolplaces, although sunsite > constained a patch to xtoolplaces. From the patch information, >I followed the link to a internet site (I forget at the moment >which) with xtoolplaces source. I tried to compile the code (GCC >2.7.2) as ELF with no luck. > >1) Does xtoolplaces binary exist in Slackware 3.0 (Did I miss it >somewhere?) >2) Does anyone have a working binary version of xtoolplaces for >Linux (i386)? >3) Does anyone know how to compile the xtoolplaces source with >GCC? I just caught this on a linux related newsgroup. This may be of help to you but I have not verified this information personnally (even though I use openwin under Linux, I never use the save workspace feature because it usually never does exactly what you want, on Sun's or PC's alike): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi, "owplaces" calls xtoolplaces, which is missing on Slackware 3.0. I downloaded my ready-to-use copy from: ftp.suse.de in /pub/November95/xtoolplaces/ file: xtoolplc.tgz Regards, Claus >Thanks >Chris Stevens >cas@tecnet1.jcte.jcs.mil -- ,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-, Vincent S. Cojot, Computer Engineering. Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Comite Micro-Informatique. coyote@step.polymtl.ca, coyote@info.polymtl.ca They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars - on stars where no human race is I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. - Robert Frost
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,a0fd6dec1a596a4e X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 11663c,a0fd6dec1a596a4e X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public X-Google-Thread: 11580b,a0fd6dec1a596a4e X-Google-Attributes: gid11580b,public X-Google-Thread: 103734,a0fd6dec1a596a4e X-Google-Attributes: gid103734,public From: coyote@step.polymtl.ca (Vincent S. Cojot) Subject: Re: Owplaces/Xtoolplaces? in SW 3.0? Date: 1996/05/02 Message-ID: <4m9kmm$i2u@service.polymtl.ca> X-Deja-AN: 152544237 references: <4m89kf$ihe$1@mhadg.production.compuserve.com> organization: STEP Polytechnique Montreal reply-to: coyote@step.polymtl.ca newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x,dc.org.linux-users