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Article #1367Re: What is happening with MGR
From: David B. Lewis
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 17:25
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 17:25
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In article <819@stag.UUCP<, trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) writes: < In article <104192@sun.Eng.Sun.COM< anantha%ravi@Sun.COM (Anantha Srirama) writes: < <A while back Bell Communcation Research (bellcore) posted a window manager < <called 'mgr'. I use it everyday and think it is really nice. I haven't < <seen any talk/discussion about this window manager in any of the comp.windows < <or comp.sources news group. Does anybody out there have anything to say about < <this?? < < I used it a lot, too (back when I had access to a Sun.) I added < limited support to my folding editor for MGR and sent a copy to the < author of MGR, but haven't heard anything since. Since I no longer < have access to a Sun, does anyone out there who uses MGR want to do < a quick test compile of my editor? I just want to make sure that my < #ifdef MGR stuff is still up to date and functional before I release < the code. The last I heard from people at Bellcore was that the fellow who did MGR a few years back (in his spare time, as I recall) has since moved on to other things. The Bellcore folks are facing internal support problems and are considering moving on to other things (X, especially). None of this is firm. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!ics!david From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: What is happening with MGR Summary: MGR discontinued (?) Keywords: MGR, mgr from BellCore Message-ID: <518@ics.COM> Date: 15 May 89 17:25:36 GMT References: <104192@sun.Eng.Sun.COM< <819@stag.UUCP< Distribution: usa Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 24