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Article #2191Epoch, DECWindows, OSF/Motif, and the meaning of life...
From: Steve Lincoln
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 1991 18:27
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 1991 18:27
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Im'm a newcommer, so please forgive my ignorance... I have just gotten epoch 3.2 compiled and running (sort of) under Ultrix/UWS 4.1 on my DECStation 3100, running DEC's X11 with DEC's OSF/Motif 1.0 "Developer's Release" (we will soon have 1.1 running). I have lots of questions: 1) Is there anyone else out there using this configuration? 2) Epoch doesn't seem to deal well with Motif's point to type or click to type modes. How do I turn off epoch's auto-raise feature, etc? Are there any bugs with epoch specifically when used under DECWindows or Motif which I should know about. 3) Where do I get the software necessary to get menus to work on this kind of system. (e.g. xmenu, and the epoch support for it). The issue of course is the degree of compatibility (or lack thereof) between DECWindows and real X11. 4) Customization: Does the minibuffer have to be in a separate window? How do I set icons, the window's titlebars, etc. 5) Has anyone considered or tried adding scrollbars or pulldown menus to epoch, e.g. to help make epoch a very friendly editor for Unix-phobes. Alternatively, does anyone know of any other good non-proprietary software for doing this? (I think the programmers here would rather loose an arm than stop using emacs, of course). Thanks in advance, Steve ============================================================================== Steve Lincoln | MAILING ADDRESS: Director of Informatics | Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research MIT Center for Genome Research | 9 Cambridge Center ===============================| Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 U.S.A. BITNET: lincoln@mitwibr |============================================== INTERNET: lincoln@genome.wi.edu <<< NOTE: No MIT in there! FAX# 617-258-6505 ==============================================================================
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc7ee,6aee61e834bd335f,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7ee,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-02-16 11:29:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!GENOME.WI.EDU!joe From: joe@GENOME.WI.EDU (Steve Lincoln) Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc Subject: Epoch, DECWindows, OSF/Motif, and the meaning of life... Message-ID: <9102161718.AA04983@genome.wi.edu> Date: 16 Feb 91 18:27:08 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 39