Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!jstravis From: jstravis@athena.mit.edu (John S. Travis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: HP widgets and wm's Message-ID: <14698@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 Sep 89 18:21:02 GMT References: <8909261838.AA05704@mycroft.mayo.edu> <4039@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jstravis@athena.mit.edu (John S. Travis) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 24 In article <4039@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabs.hp.com (Niels Mayer) writes: >> 1) Are the HP widgets available via FTP, if so where can I get them? I am trying >> to build xwebster on a DECstation 3100 (ultrix 3.1) and need the HP widget >> set for xwebster. > >You can get xwebster 1.1 and the x11r3 HP widgets via anonymous ftp >from expo.lcs.mit.edu. In directory contrib, you'll see: > > -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 42782 Mar 6 1989 xwebster.tar.Z > -rw-rw-rw- 1 ftp 1546978 Jun 30 23:02 Xhp.R3.tar.Z > >I have no idea whether xwebster/Xhp.R3 works on the DECstation 3100. If you >want to give me one of these puppies as a home machine, I'll check it out >for you.... heck, I'll even port, enhance, and maintain it! :-) forgive me for this novice question, but where do i go (or what do I do) to learn how to ftp the Xhp. I assume i set to binary mode and do a simple get. Then what? I know tar.Z. are ways the files are compressed, but how do i get them in normal file/directory form. Thanks for any help and e-mail answers are preferred since this has probbaly already been said onthe net. john travis jstravi@athena.mit.edu