[3248] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Dealing with Linux Athena and restricted packages.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Apr 26 17:11:46 2002
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 26 Apr 2002 17:09:20 -0400
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<ghudson@MIT.EDU> (Greg Hudson) writes:
> Transcript provides the popular "enscript" binary as well as some useful
> if less popular binaries like psnup and pslpr. It also dumps a bunch of
> files into /usr/athena/share/ps whose purpose I never really understood
> (I can ask bert, who might remember). There is a free replacement for
> enscript, but I don't know about the rest.
psutils (http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html) provides
much of the rest.
> third/motif provides mwm on Linux. We can't get rid of that for four or
> five years. I also imagine some small number of customers would be
> unhappy about the libraries going away.
Lesstif and OpenMotif both exist these days.
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