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- From: djf@bnr.ca (Duane Fowler)
- Subject: Re: Need Some Advice..
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.192837.17737@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa
- References: <1992Nov5.163551.2615@ttsi.lonestar.org> <1992Nov5.201427@helix.nih.gov>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:28:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.201427@helix.nih.gov>, rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable) writes:
- |> ...
- |> token ring, we plan to run Domain/OS as long as possible. Frankly,
- |> NFS,
- |> ethernet, and X windows are a step backwards as far as many long time
- |> Apollo
- |> users are concerned.
- |>
-
- Not to start a religious war or anything but, as a user of both windowing
- systems, I'm interested in knowing what people see in Domain pads, editor,
- etc. Sure the ability to search back through the pads was nice, but the
- functionality exists with Xterms - just not as gracefully.
-
- Other than that though there is little I miss. I found the window manager
- really painful for reasons too numerous to mention, but most had to do
- with how little I was able to customize it. There seemed to be too few
- ways to do neat things that X, MWM, et al can do using resources, xset, etc.
-
- Maybe I just didn't pick up the DM tricks along the way; if so I blame it
- partly on the lack of documentation compared to O'Reilly and all the other
- authors at various levels on X.
-
- So what sorts of thing could DM do that X can't?
-
-
- Regards,
-
- Duane Fowler
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