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Article #7322Re: I installed Motif, can I delete DECwindows?
From: Tim Streater
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:35
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:35
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In article <ROBM.93Jan26162453@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU> robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas) writes: >[In response to several postings about how installing the Motif 1.1.3 >subset seems to adversely affect the DECwindows subsets....] > >People always act so suprised and then run off to their computer and >immediately post to Usenet when something like this happens, when they >_should_ run to the Installation Guide or Release Notes, which >explains exactly this problem. > As original poster here I will ask this: I knew that the Motif install replaced some subsets, e.g. mail and dxnotepad. But not all, e.g. dxue. My question was whether there was any *other* stuff I could delete which the upgrade didn't *bother* to delete (without losing functionality, evidently; I *want* dxue). I was expecting people either to say "no" or "yes we routinely delete thus-and- such". That's all.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!rtech!pacbell.com!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!unixhub!unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU!streater From: streater@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Tim Streater) Subject: Re: I installed Motif, can I delete DECwindows? Message-ID: <C1JrEv.I0n@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@unixhub.SLAC.Stanford.EDU Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center References: <1993Jan26.150133.26405@cs.joensuu.fi> <106628@netnews.upenn.edu> <ROBM.93Jan26162453@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:35:19 GMT Lines: 17