randy@erik.UUCP (Randy Brown) (03/09/90)
Tim Panton, Westhawk Ltd., writes: > Has anyone actually got release 2.0 of AT+T OpenLook widgets ? I've > been promised it, told about it, seen pictures of it, read papers on > how good it is, but never actually had the tape. Is it vapourware ? No, it's not vaporware. We have the "eval" tape, obtained from George Derby, uunet!att!attmail!derby, who is (was?) the USO source code product manager. We do not yet have the "release" tape from the distribution center, probably because months ago we asked not to be sent version 1, and it's taking time to restart the gears. V2.0 installed with only a couple of very minor glitches (required more disk space than the notes indicated and needed a couple of network header file references corrected, since we have a non-standard network package). AT&T does not have a very good marketing & distribution system, but Open Look is not vaporware. ... rb