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From: jan@pandonia.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch)
Subject: Re: Motif libraries - where to get?
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References: <1994Apr22.041739.2850@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <jan.767892480@pandonia> <JKH.94May2230736@nx.ilo.dec.com>
Date:  3 May 94 22:12:20 GMT
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In <JKH.94May2230736@nx.ilo.dec.com> jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes:

>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.

The Motif library is statically linked into the tclMotif binary. You do not
need to purchase 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! :-)

Ok, as well as csc.canberra.edu.au:/pub/motif/tclMotif/* you can also find
it on
tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/binaries/usr.bin.X11/tclMotif.1.1.bin.tar.gz

			Jan
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