Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Previewing PostScript files, or dvi files.
Message-ID: <8049@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 18:26:52 GMT
References: <13763@uhnix1.uh.edu> <2748@decuac.DEC.COM> <11984@polya.Stanford.EDU> <8955@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <14040@uhnix1.uh.edu> <12262@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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In article <12262@boulder.Colorado.EDU> grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu writes:
> 
> Someone mentioned that DECwindows doesn't come with Imake.  X11R3
> comes with `imake' and `ximake' - DECwindows doesn't. This is annoying
> because the X consortium put lots of effort in requiring Imakefiles
> for contributed X11R3 applications, and all X11R4 applications are
> required to have Imakefiles. But, since I'm using a PMAX now....

The same old problem...  How do you tell DEC that you really want is:

BSD 4.3 with (optional) DEC extensions - not Ultrixwith 4.x2compatibility.

X with (optional) DECwindows - not DECwindows with broken X.

Seems to be something they find very difficult to understand or undesirable...

-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)