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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!csc.canberra.edu.au!pandonia!jan From: jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) Subject: Re: Motif Message-ID: <jan.756357003@pandonia> Sender: news@csc.canberra.edu.au Organization: Info Sci & Eng, University of Canberra, AUSTRALIA References: <CHvGxC.4tw@strix.ruessel.sub.org> <2efsqj$vl@u.cc.utah.edu> <hastyCHy922.GDK@netcom.com> <2egt68$bgd@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 20 Dec 93 03:10:03 GMT Lines: 35 In <2egt68$bgd@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> dc@cobi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Cottingham) writes: >In article <hastyCHy922.GDK@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >>---excerpt from terry's post-------------------- >>I ftp'd what is claimed to be the first public domain version of Motif >>from somewhere in austrailia. I dont have it online right now but I will >>post the location of it as soon as I get some time as I am right in the middle >>of finals. I hope to find time by friday. The name of the file was xmfm???? >>something. I cannot remember exactly. It is somewhere in .oz. >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >> >>Has anyone been able to find motif clone yet? I have not been able >>to located it. I did find something by that name but I don't think >>is a motif clone. >This sounds a lot like xmfm, which was written by some guy at the >University of Canberra (sorry, forget the name). xmfm is a Motif file >manager. It's not a Motif library, it's an application which requires >Motif. Available as ftp.x.org:contrib/xmfm.1.8-beta.tar.Z. That's right, xmfm is a file manager that I wrote. No, I have never claimed that it is a "Motif clone". To my knowledge there is no such thing yet - there are various Motif "look-a-likes" such as Tk, Interviews, etc (please, no flames about "not really Motif-like", I know they have different bases), and there is the emerging Notif project. I am not involved with Notif either and don't know how to contact them. Jan -- Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra, PO Box 1, Belconnen, Act 2616 Australia. Tel: (Aust) 6-2012422. Fax: (Aust) 6-2015041 AARNet: jan@ise.canberra.edu.au