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[daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU : please try X TechInfo]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jsolof@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sat Oct 17 14:34:45 1992
From: jsolof@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 92 14:33:12 -0400
To: techinfo@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfyi@MIT.EDU, developers@MIT.EDU, jsolof@Athena.MIT.EDU
I gave it a quick try; it gave me the following message:
[ 1:31pm] [~] arimathea% attach techinfodev
attach: /afs/net.mit.edu/dapps/project/techinfodev linked to /mit/techinfodev for filesystem techinfodev
[ 2:28pm] [~] arimathea% /mit/techinfodev/xti &
[1] 27697
[ 2:28pm] [~] arimathea% Starting X TechInfo...
Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for "gray"
[1] Done /mit/techinfodev/xti
but otherwise worked quite nicely!
Jeff Solof
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[5445] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce R. Lewis) Consulting_FYI 10/16/92 18:00 (33 lines)
Subject: please try X TechInfo
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 17:59:25 -0400
From: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@MIT.EDU>
To: cfyi@MIT.EDU, developers@MIT.EDU
Cc: techinfo@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: techinfo@MIT.EDU
Consultants and developers,
The tty-based techinfo client gets about 60 uses at MIT each weekday.
Some of the people using it would probably like to have a Motif
interface, such as the one I've been working on for the last couple
months. Although there are still many improvements I could make to this
interface, it's important not to succumb to creeping featurism so that
we can quickly release a version of X TechInfo that people can use. It
will be easy enought to make more improvements later.
I'm soliciting your comments on the interface, particularly things that
you feel should be changed before X TechInfo is inflicted on the Athena
community at large. Please send comments to techinfo@MIT.EDU.
To try the interface, type the following on any of the four
Athena-supported platforms or a sun4:
attach techinfodev
/mit/techinfodev/xti
Thanks in advance for sharing your expertise with the TechInfo team.
/| Bruce R. Lewis
\| Analyst Programmer
|\ Distributed Computing & Network Services
|/ MIT Information Systems
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