elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott) (10/02/90)
I was an undergraduate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and used to work on Sun workstations there, and came to really like the NeWS environment. Now I'm a grad student at the University of Wisconsin, and Suns are hard to come by. I've been forced to lower myself to using X. Recently I encountered an ftp site which had the source for Xview available for anonymous ftp. However, it seems to be missing OpenWindows, which is an environment necessary for creating actual PostScript windows. Looking at the (small) recent traffic in this group that I found on our spool directory, it seems that OpenWindows source will be available to universities soon (November?) If so, will that, plus the Xview source, be sufficient to build myself an XNews environment? What will be necessary in order to get a license for UW to have OpenWindows source? I'm somewhat of a renegade in the department in that I install and maintain a large amount of my own software, and like to do things in a different way than the local systems support people think I should; I use emacs instead of vi, I use nn instead of rn, and so on. I will probably be installing this just for myself and whichever of my friends I can "convert", so I don't know how easy it would be to get official university support on this one... -- Jim Elliott "Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall" elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu