abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) (12/11/89)
Does anyone have the DECUS VMS DECwindows package (VS100 I believe) available for anonymous FTP anywhere? I'd like to get ahold of it if possible. I could try through my LUG, but we're still in the process of getting started, so it might take awhile longer to get it via that route. Thanks alot -- Art Stine Sr Network Engineer Clarkson U ABStine@CLVMS.Clarkson.Edu
marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) (12/12/89)
In article <1989Dec11.153004.1202@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) writes: >Does anyone have the DECUS VMS DECwindows package (VS100 I believe) >available for anonymous FTP anywhere? I'd like to get ahold of it.... Can anybode explain WHAT is in that DECUS VMS DECwindows package ???? -- ############################################################################### Martin Brunecky, Auto-trol Technology Corporation, 12500 North Washington Street, Denver, CO-80241-2404 (303) 252-2499 ncar!ico!auto-trol!marbru
taylort@decus.com.au (Trevor Taylor) (12/16/89)
In article <493@auto-trol.UUCP>, marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky) writes: > In article <1989Dec11.153004.1202@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) writes: >>Does anyone have the DECUS VMS DECwindows package (VS100 I believe) >>available for anonymous FTP anywhere? I'd like to get ahold of it.... > > Can anybode explain WHAT is in that DECUS VMS DECwindows package ???? > I guess I should answer this, since I submitted it. The DECUS Library package "X Windows Clients and Demos", order number VS100, contains a substantial number of the clients and demos from the X11 Release 3 tape. These have been converted to run under VMS. (In most cases the changes are trivial, but they all use #ifdef VMS.) In particular, I have found that many of the standard MIT clients are useful in learning about X and also for poking around in DECwindows. For instance, xdpyinfo, xlsfonts, xlswins, etc., are useful for "looking around". I also converted xload so that I could watch CPU usage. In addition, there are some games and a sample DECwindows Toolkit application which was submitted by DEC for drawing Mandelbrot plots. All in all, it is a reasonable introduction to X, and (mostly) works under VMS DECwindows. NOTE: This should not be confused with the full unadulterated X11 Release 3 tape which is available as VS102. Glenn Everhart kindly converted from the MIT tape in tar format to VMS BACKUP format so that those of you who are purists can get the REAL thing. However, you will have to make changes to get this to work on VMS. Finally, I should point out that although the Athena widgets are on my tape (VS100), I didn't have time to get them working before I submitted it. (The tape was originally sent to DECUS in May!) Since then however, I have finished the Athena widgets, and the only problem seems to be that the Form widget will not lay out its children correctly. xedit works OK for example, but xclipboard does not. A later tape has been sent to DEC and is on one of their machines in Sydney. I am also going to try to get it onto EXPO and/or elsewhere for anonymous FTP, but this is a bit hard from "down under". Ideally, the guys at DEC would like to see the changes incorporated into R4, but I think it may be too late for this. (Any comments from MIT are welcome.) The biggest problem here is that I am so far away that I can't really help to merge source code. BTW, anyone can port the code without too much trouble. I haven't done anything extraordinary. I've just spent a bit more time on it than most people. There are a couple of tricks, but once you get the hang of it, it is really just grunt work. Trevor