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From: shad@iastate.edu (Hanse ShadowSpawn)
Subject: X-Windows APPS
Message-ID: <shad.758142937@vincent2.iastate.edu>
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Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 1994 19:15:37 GMT
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Well, I finally did it. I got FreeBSD 1.0.2 and XFree86 2.0 running on my
system (some may recall the troubles I was having before). At any
rate, I now need some software. I am looking for the following:
1) Good XWindows app. sites. I found one MIT site + freebsd.cdrom.com
but neither one of these has half of the apps I'm looking for and that
I've heard discussed on here.
2) A good communications package. I don't care if it's X or not, but
kermit just doesn't do quite what I want it to, nor is it as friendly as
I'd like.
3) tvtwm. I'm also interested in mwm, but I doesn't that require Motif?
(I don't have, nor can I afford Motif).
4) the QIC-80 tape driver (is there an X interface? just curious). If
it comes with FreeBSD then how do I use it? Is it a standard UNIX
format I could learn from my UNIX Sys-Admin book?
email replies would be best (at least cc: them to my emal address) as I
have little time to read newsgroups. Any help is very much appreciated.
Also, can anyone point me to a good resource on programming/configuring
devices. Is there such a thing as a FreeBSD manual (besides MAN pages
that is). Thank you all very much!
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