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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:10035 comp.os.linux:57481 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Motif libraries - where to get? Date: 02 May 1994 22:07:36 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94May2230736@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <1994Apr22.041739.2850@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <jan.767892480@pandonia> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au's message of 2 May 94 15:28:00 GMT In article <jan.767892480@pandonia> jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch) writes: >Hello, > As the summary suggests, I am after Motif development tools for X under Linux or >FreeBSD. I read somewhere that they were available bu no source was suggested. I >know the stuff is commercial and I am quite willing to pay as it is to help the >development process for my Thesis. See the FreeBSD FAQ for a pointer to a company selling Motif for FreeBSD. tclMotif is a binding of the tcl language to the Motif libraries. This is available free (executable included) on the standard Linux archives, and also from csc.canberra.edu.au. To use this, you will be This won't help if it's just for Linux - you'd STILL need the Motif libraries, which cost money. tclMotif is just another (albeit nice) interface to Motif programming, it does not save you from having to still have a valid copy of Motif. NOW, if by all of this you meant that you were making a statically linked copy of tclMotif for FreeBSD 1.x available, then you should definately point a complete path to it! :-) Jordan