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- From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle - Gainfully Unemployed)
- Subject: CDmanager (was: Re: AnswerBook with X11r5??)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.015117.5326@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Keywords: cdmanager
- Organization: Former Sun Employees Of The World United
- References: <MITCHELL.92Nov9000134@rose.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov13.191337.21983@asd.com> <15505@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:51:17 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <15505@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>(Ever try to wrestle with CD Manager under mwm and the "real" X server?)
- >
- >If that's the CD Manager that comes with various Sun CD-ROMs, the
- >problem probably has nothing to do with "mwm"; it has to do with the
- >fact that the application checks to see whether it's running under an
- >environment that can support it by checking whether it's running on top
- >of the X11/NeWS server, as I remember (it checks for the "NEWSSERVER"
- >environment variable, or something such as that). The damn thing should
- >use some other technique for figuring out if the environment can support
- >it, if it doesn't use NeWS.
-
- I dunno if this is evidence for Great Minds Think Alike (-: but cdmanager
- *used to* check for NEWSSERVER being set, until I turned the blowtorch on
- high in an internal Sun e-mail. The next version of "cdmanager" after that
- (and since then) have looked at DISPLAY instead, like it should have all along.
-
- >>For that matter when is Sun, the company that screems "we're standard"
- >>stop trying to set the standards and follow them so that in the age of
- >>"right sizing" (don't ya love newspeak? :-) we can spend a couple of
- >>grand on an X-terminal and not thousands more on a machine we do not
- >>really need?
- >
- >Given that the question is rhetorical and not particularly precise, I
- >can only attempt to guess what you mean, but if the non-rhetorical
- >question behind it is "when is Sun going to stop putting out
- >applications that require NeWS?", I suspect the answer is "in Open
- >Windows 4.0", if they have, indeed, shot NeWS in the head as their deal
- >with Adobe hints they've done.
-
- And I suspect that Guy is, as usual, correct. No, actually, I know he is
- correct (-: NeWS est morte, pardon mon Francais (-:
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