Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!alden.com!news.ics.com!dbl From: dbl@ics.com (David B. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers,comp.answers Subject: comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 4/6 Followup-To: poster Date: 31 Jul 1995 13:12:14 GMT Organization: ICS Lines: 1255 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <3vikre$ma3@ics.com> Reply-To: faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address) NNTP-Posting-Host: herbert.ics.com Summary: useful information about the X Window System Last-modified: 1995/07/30 Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.windows.x:99366 news.answers:49659 comp.answers:13402 Archive-name: x-faq/part4 Last-modified: 1995/07/30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 77) Where can I get an X server on a PC (DOS or Unix)? X11R6 contains sources for a number of X servers from XFree86, Inc.: XF86_S3, XF86_Mach8, XF86_Mach32, XF86_8514, XF86_Mono, XF86_Bdm, XF86_SVGA, and XF86_VGA16. See xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86. Also included in R6 is Xsvga from SGCS and Thomas Roell; see xc/programs/Xserver/hw/svga. All of the above are Unix-based. X11R5 already provides a server to many 386/486 *Unixes* with support for many of the popular video graphics adapters; and for other non-MSDOS PCs you can obtain a server from these sources: XFree86 (formerly X386 1.2E) is an enhanced version of X386 1.2, which was distributed with X11R5; it includes many bug fixes, speed improvements, and other enhancements. Source for version 2.0 [10/93] is on ftp.x.org in contrib/XFree86, ftp.physics.su.oz.au in /XFree86, and ftp.win.tue.nl in /pub/XFree86. In addition, binaries are on ftp.physics.su.oz.au, and ftp.win.tue.nl among other systems. Info: x386@physics.su.oz.au. Note: this package obsoletes Glenn Lai's Speedup patches for an enhanced X11R5 server for 386 UNIXes with ET4000 boards (SpeedUp.tar.Z on ftp.x.org). Metro Link Inc. (305-970-7353, sales@metrolink.com; in Europe contact ADNT, (33 1) 3956 5333) ships an implementation of X11R4 for the 386/486 Unix market. SGCS offers X386 Version 1.3, based on Thomas Roell's X11R5 two-headed server, in binary and source form. Information: 408-255-9665, info@sgcs.com. ISC, SCO, UHC, and other well-known operating-system vendors typically offer X servers. For MSDOS PCs: Daniel J. McCoy (mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov) has started posting monthly a list of non-UNIX servers for PCs, Macs, and Amigas; it includes pricing information. The current copy is kept on ftp.x.org in contrib as XServers-NonUNIX.txt.Z. (Note: may be significantly out of date.) An article on PC X servers appears in the March 2, 1992 Open Systems Today. Also of possible use: Net-I from Programit (212-809-1707) enables communication among DOS, OS/2 and Unix machines and can be used to display PC sessions on your Unix X display. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 78) Where can I get an X server on a Macintosh running MacOS? eXodus from White Pine Software (603-886-9050) runs on any Mac with at least 1MB of memory and supports intermixing of X and Mac windows and also supports the SHAPE extension. Version 5.0 became available 10/93. Apple's MacX runs on MacPlus or newer machines with >= 2MB of memory and system software 6.0.4 or later. Version 1.1 is fully X11R4-based. It supports full ICCCM-compatible cut and paste of text AND graphics between the Macintosh and X11 worlds, the SHAPE extension (including SHAPEd windows on the Macintosh desktop), an optional built-in ICCCM-compliant window manager, X11R4 fonts and colors, a built-in BDF font compiler, and built-in standard colormaps. Upgrades to MacX are available by ftp from aux.support.apple.com. Info: 408-996-1010. Tenon's MachTen X Window Software, Release 3.0, is a comprehensive X display server and X client development environment. It includes an X11R5 server ported to MachTen/MacOS, standard window managers, an a set of X11R5 client-side libraries. Info: Tenon Intersystems, 805-963-698, AppleLink: TENON. Also: Liken (1-800-245-UNIX or info@qualix.com) software enables monochrome 68000 Mac applications to run on a SPARC system running X. Xport (1-800-245-UNIX (415-572-0200) or xport@qualix.com) enables Mac applications to display on an X-based workstation by turning the Mac into an X client. [Note: there are questions on whether this product is still available.] Intercon has a product called Planet-X which enables Mac applications to display on an X server. AGE Logic will ship XoftWare for Macintosh in March 1995. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 79) Where can I get X for the Amiga? The new Amiga 3000 machines offer an X server and OPEN LOOK tools and libraries on a full SVR4 implementation. GfxBase, Inc. provides "X11 R4.1" for the AmigaDos computer; it contains X11R4 clients, fonts, etc., and a Release 4 color server. An optional programmer's toolkit includes the header files, libraries, and sample programs. Info from GfxBase, 408-262-1469. [Dale Luck (uunet!{cbmvax|pyramid}!boing!dale); 2/91] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 80) Where can I get a serial-based X server for connecting from home? Until LBX (q.v.) is more common, an option includes NCD's PC-XView with PC-Xremote. sxpc (by Robert Andrew Ryan (rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu)) is a simple X protocol compressor. Sources are on atk.itc.cmu.edu or from ftp.x.org (in R5contrib/sxpc-1.4.shar.Z). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 81) Where can I get a fast X server for a workstation? The R5 server should be among the fastest available for most machines. Sun sells a "Direct Xlib" product which improves rendering for applications running on the same machine as the X server; the replacement Xlib library accesses graphics hardware directly using Sun's Direct Graphics Access (DGA) technology. Several companies are making hardware accellerator boards: Dupont Pixel Systems (302-992-6911), for Sun. Megatek's (619-455-5590) X-cellerator board for the Sun 3 and Sun 4 is based on the TI 34020; the company claims performance improvements of 5x to 10x over the sample X11R3 server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 82) Where can I get a server for my high-end Sun graphics board? The R6 Xsun24 server supports the CG8 (RasterOps SPARC Card TC). The R6 Xsun also supports multiple framebuffers of the same type. (It's possible that this code will work for a CG9, and for a CG12 as a dumb memory frame buffer. The X Consortium doesn't have a CG9 or a CG12 at the X Consortium and so is not able to provide support for these frame buffers.) Takahashi Naoto (Electrotechnical Laboratory, ntakahas@etl.go.jp) has modified the X11R5 server to support the Sun CG8, CG9, and CG12 boards. The files are on ftp.x.org in R5contrib/Xsun24-3.[01].tar.Z. Note that both files are necessary to build Xsun24-3.1. The R5 Xsun Multi-screen server is a general purpose replacement for the pre-R6 server/ddx/sun layer; it supports multiple framebuffers of the same type and implements several other features above the Consortium implementation. Available on ftp.x.org in the file R5contrib//Xsun.multi-screen/R5.Xsun.multi-screen.tar.Z. [Kaleb Keithley, now kaleb@x.org, 12/91]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 83) Where can I get an "X terminal" server for my low-end Sun 3/50? Seth Robertson (seth@ctr.columbia.edu) has written Xkernel; the current version [1.4 as of 8/91, 2.0 expected RSN] is on sol.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.40] in /pub/Xkernel.gamma. It turns a Sun 3/50 into a pseudo- X terminal; most of the overhead of the operating system is side-stepped, so it is fairly fast and needs little disk space. A similar approach is to run the regular X server by making /etc/init a shell script which does the minimal setup and then invokes Xsun, like this example script from mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU: #! /bin/sh exec >/dev/console 2>&1 /etc/fsck -p /dev/nd0 case $? in 0) ;; 4) /etc/reboot -q -n ;; 8) echo ND fsck failed - get help /etc/halt ;; 12) echo Interrupted /etc/reboot ;; *) echo Unknown error in reboot fsck - get help /etc/halt ;; esac /bin/dd if=/tmp-fs of=/dev/nd2 bs=512 count=128 >/dev/null 2>&1 /etc/mount /dev/nd2 /tmp /etc/ifconfig le0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 132.206.41.255 /etc/mount -o ro apollo:/u2/x11/lib /local/lib/X11 /etc/route add default 132.206.41.1 1 >/dev/null set `/etc/ifconfig le0` exec /Xsun -once -multidisp -mux -query \ `(sh -vn &1)` ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 84) What terminal emulators other than xterm are available? People from PCS have rewritten xterm from scratch using a multi-widget approach that can be used by applications. Emu supports features like color, blinking text/cursors. Emulations can be added on the fly; one emulation provided is for the Vt220. Version 1.3 is on ftp.x.org and on the R6 contrib tape. For more information, contact emu@pcs.com. A modification of xterm that supports ANSI color is in tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/dosemu/Development:ansi-xterm-R6.tgz. A set of modifications for color support to xterm is on ftp.x.org in xterm_color.diffs.Z. mxterm, a Motif-based xterm is available from the Paderborner ftp-Server ftp@uni-paderborn.de (131.234.2.32), file /unix/X11/more_contrib/mxterm.tar.Z. A version is also on ftp.x.org, as is apparently a set of color modifications. The Color Terminal Widget provides ANSI-terminal emulation compatible with the VTx00 series; a version is on ftp.x.org in R5contrib/CTW-1.1.tar.Z. A Motif version is on ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr in pub/Term-1.0.tar.Z. kterm is an X11R4-based vt100/vt102 (and Tektronix 4014) terminal emulator that supports display of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text (in VT mode). Also supported are: ANSI color sequences, multi-byte word selection, limited Compound Text support, and tab and newline preservation in selections. kterm 4.1.2 is also available from these anonymous ftp sites: clr.nmsu.edu:pub/misc/kterm-4.1.2.tar.Z [128.123.1.14] ftp.x.org:R5contrib/kterm-5.2.0.tar.Z mterm, by mouse@larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU, is an X terminal emulator which includes ANSI X3.64 and DEC emulation modes. mterm can be had by ftp to collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.78.1), in X/mterm.src/mterm.ball-o-wax. color_xterm is available from ftp.x.org. Cxterm is a Chinese xterm, which supports both GB2312-1980 and the so-called Big-5 encoding. Hanzi input conversion mechanism is builtin in cxterm. Most input methods are stored in external files that are loaded at run time. Users can redefine any existing input methods or create their own ones. The X11R5 cxterm is the rewritten of cxterm (version 11.5.1) based on X11R5 xterm; it is in the R5 contrib software. [thanks to Zhou Ning and Steinar Bang .] XVT is available on ftp.x.org's R5contrib in xvt-1.0.tar.Z and xvt-1.0.README. It is designed to offer xterm's functionality with lower swap space and may be of particular use on systems driving many X terminals. A second version, 2.0, is on unix.hensa.ac.uk in misc/unix/xvt/xvt-2.0.tar.Z (see also xvt-2.0.patch[12]). x3270 is in ftp.x.org contrib/applications/x3270. The typescript application and inset in the Andrew User Interface System offers a shell script interface. It does not provide curses support, but does permit general cut/copy/paste to construct commands or extract a portion of the log. hanterm (2.0), by jksong@cosmos.kaist.ac.kr, is an xterm modified to support Hangul (Korean writing system) input/output. It's available at several Korean archives(cair.kaist.ac.kr,kum.kaist.ac.kr,etc) and seoul.caltech.edu in the US. This version makes obsolete an older version not based on xterm. Another experimental hanterm implementation, hanterm (3.0 alpha), is underway by Chang Hyeong-Kyu at chk@ssp.etri.re.kr; it was written to support a 3-byte Hangul code (dictionary ordered), which can compose all possible Hangul characters. A GenTerm widget is on iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu. It contains a pty widget which can be attached to a shell. Note that the vt100 emulation hasn't been that well tested. Also: IBM sells a 3270 emulator for the RS/6000 (part #5765-011); it's based on Motif. Century Software (801-268-3088) sells a VT220 terminal emulator for X. VT102, Wyse 50 and SCO Color Console emulation are also available. Grafpoint's TGRAF-X provides emulation of Tektronix 4107, 4125, and 42xx graphics terminals; it's available for most major platforms. Information (inc. free demo copies): 800-426-2230; Fax. 408-446-0666; uunet!grafpnt!sales. IXI's X.deskterm, a package for integrating character-based applications into an X environment, includes a number of terminal-emulation modules. Information: +44 (0223) 462131. [5/90] Pericom produces Teem-X, a set of several emulation packages for a number of Tek, DEC, Westward, and Data General terminals. The software runs on Sun 3, Sun 4, Apollo, DEC, ISC, IBM/AIX. Information: US: 609-895-0404, UK: +44 (0908) 560022. [5/90] SCO's SCOterm (info@sco.COM), part of its Open Desktop environment, is a Motif-compliant SCO ANSI color console emulator. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 85) Does xterm offer colored text or a blinking cursor? No; these features are not offered by the xterm program. However, several of the emulators mentioned above do offer these features; the list is partial: - mterm, color-xterm, CTW and emu support colored text - mterm and emu support blinking text - mterm and emu support block and underline text cursors - emu supports a blinking text cursor [Thanks to Michael Elbel (me@dude.pcs.com); 10/93] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 86)! Where can I get an X-based editor or word-processor? You can ftp a version of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor, including X11 support, from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:/pub/gnu/. Version 19 has some mouse/menu support. Epoch is a modified version of Gnu Emacs (18) with additional facilities useful in an X environment. Current sources are on cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1) in ~ftp/pub/epoch-files/epoch; the current [8/92] version is 4.2. [In Europe, try unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de]. There are two subdirectories: epoch contains the Epoch source, and widgets contains code for adding scrollbars to Epoch. You can get on the Epoch mailing list by sending a request to epoch-request@cs.uiuc.edu. Epoch is no longer supported. The official successor to Epoch is Lucid Emacs which is available at cs.uiuc.edu in ~ftp/pub/lemacs. All functionality which was only present in Epoch is gradually being ported to Lucid Emacs. XEmacs (formerly Lucid Emacs) is a version of GNU Emacs derived from an early version of Emacs version 19. It currently requires X Windows to run; X support is greatly enhanced over GNU Emacs version 18, including support for multiple X windows, input and display of all ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) characters, Zmacs/Lispm style region highlighting, a customizable Motif-like menubar, more powerful keymap support, flexible text attributes, support on regional and screen-local basis through X resources and/or lisp, and support for the X11 selection mechanism. Lucid Emacs is free; the latest version (6/95) is 19.12, and is available from FTP.CS.UIUC.EDU (128.174.252.1). See also http://xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu/. There is now an HTML mode/browser. The vi-like editor VILE supports a pure-X mode, in which it operates much like vi running in an xterm window. Though not a strict vi clone, [x]vile is designed to feel like vi to the practiced user; it adds many useful features, most notably multiple buffer and window capabilities. Version 5.2 [3/95], which also supports Xt-based implementations (including a Motif version) is available on id.wing.net in /pub/pgf/vile. Information: Paul Fox (pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us). The Andrew system on the X11 contrib tapes has been described as one of the best word-processing packages available. It supports word processing with multi-media embedded objects: rasters, tables/spread sheets, drawings, style editor, application builder, embedded programming language, &c. [Fred Hansen (wjh+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU)] Version 6.3 is on the R6 tapes and is also in ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/AUIS/dist-6.3. You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this software; try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help. Version 7.2 is now (5/95) available. The InterViews C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG editor called Doc; it saves and loads files in a LaTeX-*like* format (not quite LaTeX). The package can also import idraw-PostScript drawings. NEdit 3.1 (10/94) is a Motif-based text editor supporting multiple windows and multi-level undo; it is very complete in its features while remaining very easy to use. Sources are on ftp.x.org and also from ftp.fnal.gov:pub/nedit/, which also offers pre-built binaries several platforms, including Sun, SGI, HP, and DEC systems. Information: Mark Edel (edel@fnal.gov, nedit_support@fnal.gov); http://cdibm.fnal.gov:/nirvana/nedit.html. aXe (by J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk), a multi-buffer, multi-window text editor based around the Xaw Text Widget, is available on ftp.x.org and arjuna.newcastle.ac.uk (128.240.150.1) as aXe-6.1.2.tar.Z [6/94]. aXe offers a hypertext help system and extension via Tcl. asedit, by A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk, is an easy-to-use text editor built around Motif text widget. It supports multiple windows, pull-down and pop-up menus, multiple undo and redo, and so on. Version 1.31, the International Free Release, includes the following language versions: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. All commands and messages are localized for each language (the context sensitive, hypertext on-line help is available only in English). asedit is available from ftp.x.org in /contrib/editors as asedit-1.3.2.tar.Z [11/94]. asWedit is an HTML3 editor available from URL:ftp://ftp.cc.ic.ac.uk/pub/packages/www/tools/asWedit/ or from URL:ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/. Version 1.1.1 became available 7/95. ashe (xthml) is an x-based HTML editor. phoenix is an X-based (TCL/TK-based) HTML editor. e93 is a programmer oriented text editor that works with X windows. It is most similar to editors on the Mac, and NeXT platforms. Information: Todd Squires, squirest@icomsim.com. tkedit 1.5.0 [5/95] uses tcl as an extension language; it offers multiple buffers, split views, general X11 selections, function-key macro recording, etc. Sources are on ftp.aud.alcatel.com and on ftp.ifh.de/pub/unix/edit/tkedit-1.5.0.tar.Z. BETH is a Browsing and Editing Tcl Hypertool available from harbor.ecn.purdue.edu in /pub/tcl/code/beth4.1.tar.gz. Features include unlimited undo, menus, vertical/horizontal grids, and name completion. Info: svoboda@ece.cmu.edu (David Svoboda). The DGC Tools, on harbor.ecn.purdue.edu in pub/tcl/code/dgctools-0.2.tar.Z, include Tke, a TclX/Tk-based multi-window X11 text editor. Information is available from Dave Clemans (dave_clemans@mentorg.com), who promises a significant update soon. The js tools by Jay Sekora, on harbor.ecn.purdue.edu in pub/tcl/code/jstools-tk3.2v1.0.tar.Z and on princeton.edu in pub/js/jstools-tk3.2v1.0.tar.Z, include a extensible text editor. Mxedit is a fully functional text editor based on the Tk mxedit widget. The editor features indefinite undo/redo/crash recovery, search/replace, and extensibility via Tcl programming. The latest version is always avaiable on parcftp.xerox.com under the /pub/mxedit directory. The Tcl archive mirror site harbor.ecn.purdue.edu also has a copy in /pub/tcl/code. Version 2.3.1 is soon (7/94) to be updated to 2.4. The contact for mxedit is welch@parc.xerox.com (Brent Welch) Sam is an interactive multi-file text editor intended for bitmap displays. A textual command language supplements the mouse-driven, cut-and-paste interface to make complex or repetitive editing tasks easy to specify. The language is characterized by the composition of regular expressions to describe the structure of the text being modified. Sam was written by Rob Pike for the Bell Labs Blit/Gnot and later Plan 9, and ported to Unix by Howard Trickey (also of Bell Labs). Sam can be ftp'd from research.att.com, directory /dist/sam; the mailing list itself is archived on ftp.sys.utoronto.ca in /pub/sam. Send subscription requests for the sam-fans mailing list to the address sam-fans-request@hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca. textedit is part of Sun's OpenWindow's DeskSet and the public XView distribution. xed, similar in function to axe and architectures (based on Athena widgets), is on ftp.x.org in contrib/editors; version 1.3 is current [7/95]. (public editors below this line not recently confirmed) TED is a simple Motif-based text editor; it is a wrapper around the Motif text widget which offers search/replace, paragraph formatting, and navigation features. TED is available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) as /pub/bill.tar.Z; there are also executables there. Point, by crowley@unmvax.cs.unm.edu (Charlie Crowley), is Tcl/Tk-based and offers dyanimic configuration and programming in the Tcl macro language. The editor is available from cs.unm.edu in pub/Point/point1.63.tar.Z. xcoral, a multi-window mouse-based text editor, is on ftp.inria.fr (X/contrib-R5/clients); it also has bindings similar to emacs and has a built-in browser for C and C++ code. Version 2.4 was released 4/95. jed is available from rhino.cis.vutbr.cs in pub/software/czech. Commercial products include: A commercial version of Asedit (see above) is available from Stochniol Advanced Software (+44 (0)81-679-5795, astoch@ic.ac.uk). Iris Computing Laboratories offers the "ie" editor. Info: +1-505-298-2700 or info@spectro.com. (See the review in the 1/94 Unix Review.) Qualix Group (info@qualix.com or 800-245-UNIX (415-572-0200)) offers a BRIEF-compatible, X-based GUI editor that runs on all major UNIX platforms as well as PCs. CRISP offers a multi-window/multi-buffer environment with color highlighting. It is fully customizable. VITAL (713-781-7406) offers the Crisp editor, a work-alike superset of the popular BRIEF editor, for several systems. Previously-available source versions have been withdrawn from circulation. FrameMaker and FrameWriter are available as X-based binary products for several machines. Frame is at 800-843-7263 (CA: 408-433-3311). WX2 (formerly InDepthEdit) is available from Non Standard Logics (+33 (1) 44 08 70 80; requests@nsl.fr). The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX, MA: 508-870-0300) include a multi-font WYSIWG document composer; for several systems. (commercial products below this line not recently confirmed) Elan Computer Group (Mountain View, CA; 415-964-2200) has announced the Avalon Publisher 2.0, an X11/OPEN LOOK WYSIWYG electronic publishing system. Buzzwords International Inc. has an editor called 'Professional Edit' that runs under X/Motif for various platforms. Info: +1-314-334-6317. DECwrite is available from DEC for some DEC hardware and SunWrite is available from Sun. IslandWrite will soon be available from Island Graphics (415-491-1000) (info@island.com) for some HP & Apollo platforms. Interleaf is currently available from Interleaf (800-241-7700, MA: 617-577-9800) on all Sun and DEC platforms; others are under development. ArborText, Inc. provides an X11 version of its Electronic Publishing program called "The Publisher". The Publisher is available on Sun, HP and Apollo workstations. Contact Arbortext at 313-996-3566. [5/90] Typex is a Motif-based editor available for several systems. Information: Amcad Research, 408-867-5705, fax -6209. WordPerfect offers an X-based version of WordPerfect for several workstations. Information: 801-222-5300 or 800-451-5151. Bradford Business Systems (714-859-4428) offers SpeedEdit for several systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 87) Where can I get an X-based mailer? xmh, an X interface to mh, is distributed with the X11 release. exmh is a TK-based user interface to MH mail. It supports arbitrarily nested folder structures, and it helps you find new mail if you pre-sort it into different folders as it arrives. It parses MIME messages and has a limited MIME composition facility. You can hook it up to your favorite editor, or use its built-in editor. exmh is extensible via Tcl programming and X resource-based button and menu specifications. The latest version of exmh is always available on parcftp.xerox.com:/pub/exmh and a mirror copy is available on the Tcl archive site, harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/code. The current version of exmh is 1.4. The contact for exmh is welch@parc.xerox.com (Brent Welch); see also http://www.sunlabs/com/~bwelch/exmh/. Palm is a TK-based mail program designed to be intuitive to Pine users; it makes use of xhmh's code for e.g. MIME display. It may not be ready for distribution yet. Xmail is an X-based window interface to Berkeley-style mail handlers; it is styled primarily after the Sunview mailtool application and builds on most Unix systems. The current release [6/95] is 1.6; older versions are available in the X11R5 contrib tape and from ftp.x.org (contrib/applications/xmail_1.6.tar.gz) . Info: Jeff Markham, markham@cadence.com. thsmail, by Thomas Schaller (ths@thshome.erls02.siemens.de), is a Motif-based Mail User Agent for RFC822 and MIME messages. The Linux version is freeware; try ftp.erls02.siemens.de:/pub/linux/thsmail/*. adcmail (0.9 pre-release), on ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk provides all the normal mail facilities (message management, aliases, etc.); work is underway to tidy things up a little and to add MIME compliancy. coolmail 1.2 became available 4/95. It is a mail notification utility for UNIX systems running X. Sources are on sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/packages/mail/. MMH (My Mail Handler), a motif interface to the MH mail handler, is available from ftp.eos.ncsu.edu (152.1.9.25) in pub/bill.tar.Z; it is bundled with the TED editor, which it uses for composing messages. Motif 1.1 is required; if you don't have it, look for DEC and SPARC executables in the same place. Information and problems to: Erik Scott, escott@eos.ncsu.edu. [1/92] The Andrew Toolkit supports the Andrew Message System; it is available from ftp.x.org and many other X archives and from ftp.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.232.154), or send email to susan+@andrew.cmu.edu. You may be able to use the Remote Andrew Demo service to try this software; try "finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu" for help. XMailTool is an Xaw-based interface to a BSD-style mail reader; version 2.0 was released 9/92. Information: Bob Kierski, bobo@cray.com or 612-683-5874. MuMail, an X-based elm-like mail program is available at sipb.mit.edu:/pub/seyon/MUMAIL or sunsite.unc.edu in /pub/Linux/system/Mail/Mumail-2.3b-tar.Z. Xelm is a work-in-progress by wing@dcs.warwick.ac.uk to construct an X version of the elm mailer. XLView is an X mailer with MIME support that is also an IMAP client. Also: xmailbox 2.2 is an enhanced xbiff and plays sound effects and animation. Sources are on ftp.x.org in /contrib/applications/xmailbox-2.2.tar.gz. Also: Alfalfa Software offers Poste, a UNIX-based mailer that has Motif- and command-based interfaces. It includes support for multimedia enclosures, and supports both the Internet and X.400 mail standards. Information: info@alfalfa.com, +1 617-497-2922. Z-Code Software (an NCD company) offers Z-Mail for most Unix systems; binaries support both tty and Motif interfaces. The mailer includes a csh-like scripting language for customizing and extending mail capabilities. Information: 415-898-8649, info@ncd.com, http://www.ncd.com/Z-Code/zcode.html. Ishmail from Halsoft (ftp.halsoft.com) is available on several platforms. It is a MIME-compliant X/Motif-based mailer. See also: http://www.halsoft.com/products/ishmail. Several vendors' systems include X-based mailers. DEC offers dxmail; Sun offers an X-based mailtool; SCO (info@sco.com) includes SCOmail in its Open Desktop product. HP offers the MPower product. Several integrated office-productivity tools include mailers: The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX, MA: 508-870-0300) include a mailer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 88)! Where can I get an X-based paint/draw program? Drawing Packages: xpic is an object-oriented drawing program. It supports multiple font styles and sizes and variable line widths; there are no rotations or zooms. xpic is quite suitable as an interactive front-end to pic, though the xpic-format produced can be converted into PostScript. (The latest version is on the R4 contrib tape in clients/xpic and on ftp.x.org in R5/contrib/xpic.tar.Z.) xfig (original work by Supoj Sutanthavibul, with additional work and currently maintained by Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)) is an object-oriented drawing program supporting compound objects. The xfig format can be converted to PostScript or other formats. xfig 3.1.3 is available [1/95] in /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/xfig; transfig 3.1.1 is available in /contrib/applications/drawing_tools/transfig. Older versions are on the R5 contrib tape or on ftp.x.org in /contrib/R5fixes (version 2.1.8 [10/93]). idraw supports numerous fonts and various line styles and arbitrary rotations. It supports zoom and scroll and color draws and fills. The file format is a PostScript dialect. It can import TIFF files. Distributed as a part of the InterViews C++ toolkit (current release 3.1, from interviews.stanford.edu) . tgif by William Cheng (william@oahu.cs.ucla.edu) is available from most uucp sites and also from ftp.x.org and from cs.ucla.edu. It is frequently updated; version 2.16.12 was released 7/95. See http://bourbon.cs.ucla.edu:8001/tgif/. figure in the Andrew User Interface System (versions 5.2 and above) is a general drawing package which also allows arbitrary Andrew insets to be part of the drawing. Picasso 3.8, an interactive drawing tool in the style of idraw, is on zenon.inria.fr in pub/tk (it requires tk and tclX). pcb is intended primarly for printed circuit board layouts; it is available in ftp.medizin.uni-ulm.de:/pub/pcb-1.2/. Commercial Draw Products: FrameMaker has some draw capabilities. [4/90] Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999 Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960 Ficor AutoGraph, 513-771-4466 IslandGraphics offers IslandDraw. Info: 415-491-1000. BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms. (617-873-5000 or slate-offer@bbn.com). [11/90] Corel Draw, 613-728-8200; ported to X by Prior Data Sciences 800-267-2626 sphinx is a family of tools for the realization of dynamic drawings; it contains the vector-drawing objecft grinx and an interactve X-based editor. The toolbox is available from in GmbH (+49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de). Paint Packages: XPaint 2.1, by David Koblas (koblas@netcom.com), is a color bitmap/pixmap editing tool featuring most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various formats, including PPM, XBM, etc. The current version is available for ftp from ftp.x.org as R5contrib/xpaint-2.1.1.tar.Z [1/94] CDE includes an icon editor which supports both xbm and xpm formats. It has a screen-capture facility and also includes many pre-defined icons. A new OpenWindows PostScript-based graphical editor named 'ice' is now [2/91] available for anonymous ftp from Internet host lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (129.236.10.30). ice (Image Composition Environment) is an imaging tool that allows raster images to be combined with a wide variety of PostScript annotations in WYSIWYG fashion via X11 imaging routines and NeWS PostScript rasterizing. (It may require OpenWindows and Sun C++ 2.0.) The "pixmap" program by Lionel Mallet (mallet@sophia.inria.fr) for creating pixmaps is on the R5 contrib tape; it resembles the bitmap client. Version 2.6 is now available [5/94] on ftp.x.org and avahi.inria.fr. A version of Robert Forsman's (thoth@lightning.cis.ufl.edu) xscribble, an 8-bit paint program for X, is now on ftp.cis.ufl.edu in pub/thoth/. [2/93] Although MetaCard is not generally classified as a paint program, a full 24-bit color image editor is built into the program, which can be used for light image editing and for producing color icons (info@metacard.com). MetaCard is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or 128.138.213.21. pixt by J. Michael Flanery (flanery@mips.com) produces XPM output; it is available on ftp.x.org. xpe on ftp.x.org produces XPM output. Phoenix is a 24-bit editor for editing of photos, notably. An alpha is on nic.funet.fi:pub/graphics/packages/phoenix. Yaged (Yet Another Graphics EDitor) is an X/Motif(1.1) TIFF pixmap editor. Sources are on ftp.sbu.ac.uk in /pub/MotifStuff/yaged. The SENBEI paint program by Kenichi Chinen (k-chinen@is.aist-nara.ac.jp) is available through ftp://shika.aist-nara.ac.jp/chinen/sp/sp940521.tar.Z. It loads and saves several file formats. Commerial Paint Products: DEC Ultrix includes the dxpaint bitmap editor. OpenWindows includes the olpixmap editor. SCO ODT includes the SCOpaint editor. HP VUE includes the vueicon editor. Dux Ta-Dah!, 1-800-543-4999 Arts&Letters Composer, 214-661-8960 IslandGraphics offers IslandPaint. Info: 415-491-1000. xgremlin, a simple drawing editor, is available from PubDraw. BBN/Slate from BBN Software Products includes a full-featured draw and paint program with object grouping and multiple patterns; multiple X platforms. (617-873-5000). [11/90] Several integrated office-productivity tools include draw/paint capabilities: The Applixware office integration tools from Applix (1-800-8APPLIX, MA: 508-870-0300) include draw/paint capabilities. [thanks in part to Stephen J. Byers (af997@cobcs1.cummins.com), J. Daniel Smith (dsmith@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com), and David Koblas (koblas@netcom.com)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 89) Where can I get an X-based plotting program? These usually are available from uucp sites such as uunet or other sites as marked; please consult the archie server to find more recent versions. See also the comp.graphics, available from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/graphics/faq or http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/graphics/faq/faq.html gnuplot X (xplot), PostScript and a bunch of other drivers. ftp.x.org [and elsewhere]:R5contrib/gnuplot3.4a.tar.Z gl_plot X output only [?] comp.sources.unix/volume18 graph+ yallara.cs.rmit.oz.au:/pub/graph+.tar.Z [131.170.24.42] comp.sources.unix/volume8 pdraw,drawplot 2D and 3D X,PS scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/3dplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1] scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/contour.tar.Z [128.32.138.1] scam.berkeley.edu:/src/local/drawplot.tar.Z [128.32.138.1] uunet:~ftp/contrib/drawplot.tar.Z xgraph plot, zoom. Outputs PS or HPGL. shambhala.berkeley.edu:/pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.32.132.54] sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de:X11/contrib/xgraph-11.tar.Z [132.230.1.1] nisc.jvnc.net:pub/xgraph-11.tar.Z [128.121.50.7] comp.sources.x/volume3 or many other sites ACE/gr (formerly xvgr and xmgr) XY plotting tools ftp.ccalmr.ogi.edu [129.95.72.34]:CCALMR/pub/acegr/xmgr-3.00.tar.Z XGobi An interactive dynamic scatter-plotting tool from Bellcore lib.stat.cmu.edu: general/xgobi* [log in as statlib with your email as the password; or send email to statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu containing the one-line message "send xgobi from general"] Information from: Debby Swayne, dfs@bellcore.com. Robot a scientific XView-based graph plotting and data analysis tool ftp.astro.psu.edu:pub/astrod/robotx0.48.tar.Z [128.118.147.70] plotmtv a multi-purpose 2D/3D plotter tanqueray.berkeley.edu:/pub/Plotmtv1.3.1.tar.Z XgPlot Motif-based x-y graphing with a movie-loop display ftp.x.org:XgPlot-4.1.tar.Z [2/91. Thanks in part to: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti); geoff@Veritas.COM (Geoffrey Leach); Paul A. Scowen (uk1@spacsun.rice.edu); black@beno.CSS.GOV (Mike Black)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 90) Where can I get an X-based graph-drawing program? Xgrab reads a textual specification of a graph, lays out the graph using heuristics to minimize the number of edge crossings, and displays the graph as labeled nodes and edges in an X window. Sources are on ftp.cs.washington.edu (128.95.1.4) as pub/xgrab.tar.Z. Interviews 2.6 is required. [12/93] daVinci is a universal, generic visualization system for generating high-quality drawings of directed graphs. Besides a novel automatic layout algorithm for graphs, many interactive features such as fine-tuning of a layout, abstractions and scaling operations are provided. A bidirectional application interface is implemented for tool communication with arbitrary programs. daVinci is available for Sun's and PC's with Linux from ftp.uni-bremen.de in /pub/graphics/daVinci. Version 1.4.1 is current [12/94]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 91) Where can I get an X-based spreadsheet? A version of "sc" for X and which supports Lotus files is available from vernam.cs.uwm.edu in /pub/soft-eng/xspread3.1.1.tar.Z [3/95]. It also includes graphing functions. Information: soft-eng@cs.uwm.edu. The GNU package OLEO is available in prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/oleo-1.6.tar.Z; it can generate PostScript renditions of spreadsheets. Also: Several of the below are part of integrated office-productivity tools which may also include word-processing, email, conferencing, image processing, and drawing/painting, among other features. Vendor Product Contact Information ------ ------- ------------------- Access Technology 20/20 508-655-9191 Informix WingZ 800-331-1763 Quality Software Products Q-Calc/eXclaim 800-628-3999 (CA:213-410-0303) Unipress Q-Calc 201-985-8000 Uniplex Uniplex 214-717-0068, 800-356-8063 Digital DECdecision 1-800-DIGITAL Applix Applixware 508-870-0300, 1-800-8APPLIX. AIS XESS 919-942-7801, info@ais.com BBN Software Products BBN/Slate 617-873-5000 slate-offer@bbn.com Elsid Software Systems Ripcam 613-228-9468 Andrew Consortium table info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu SAS by the SAS Institute now has a spreadsheet module; the X version is available on the current popular RISC platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 92) Where can I get X-based project-management software? Vendor Product Contact Information ------ ------- ------------------- Productivity Solutions Ultra Planner 617-237-1600 Quality Software Products MasterPlan Version, 310-410-0303 sales@qsp.com Digital Tools, Inc. AutoPLAN 408-366-6920, 800-755-0065 NASA COMPASS 404-542-3265, service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu GEC-Marconi Software Systems GECOMO Plus 703-648-1551 GEC-Marconi Software Systems SIZE Plus 703-648-1551 TEI, Inc VUE 408-985-7100 Mantix Cascade 703-506-8833 Advanced Management Solutions Schedule Publisher 800-397-6829 Auburn University ?? ?? Computer Associates SuperProject ?? Xopps devvax.jpl.nasa.gov ACCENT GraphicVUE info@nis.com [thanks to Pete Phillips; 7/92] [thanks to Atul Chhabra (atul@nynexst.com); 10/92] Pete Phillips (pete@smtl.demon.co.uk) posts to comp.sources.wanted a FAQ on project-management programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 93) Where can I get an X-based PostScript previewer? Ghostscript is distributed by the Free Software Foundation and includes a PostScript interpreter and a library of graphics primitives. Version 2.6.1(.4) is now available; the major site is prep.ai.mit.edu, although ftp.cs.wisc.edu is also recommended. [6/93] Version 3.0 will include a full implementation of PostScript Level 2. GSPreview (by the Computing Laboratory of the University of Kent at Canterbury) is an X user interface (WCL-based) to the Ghostscript 2.4-2.6 interpreter. The source is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org as gspreview.2.4.tar.Z [9/94] or from ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/misc/unix/gspreview/gspreview.2.4.tar.Z. GhostView (by Tim Theisen, tim@cs.wisc.edu) is full-function user interface for GhostScript. Check ftp.cs.wisc.edu or prep.ai.mit.edu for /pub/ghostview-1.5.tar.Z [7/93]. There are also several executables available on ftp.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/X/ghostview-exe for various architectures. XPsView (by Francois Bourdoncle, bourdoncle@prl.dec.com) is a Motif wrapper around PsView, which is a X11 DSC Document viewer that can use both XDPS and GhostScript as the interpreter engine. An early version was an the Alpha Freeware CD. More recent versions, which include batch translation of PostScript files into PPM files, are on gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/DEC/PRL/psview-1.41.tar.Z. Also: ScriptWorks is Harlequin's software package for previewing and printing PostScript(R) descriptions of text and graphics images; previewers for X are available. For information call +44-223-872522 or send email to scriptworks-request@harlqn.co.uk. Image Network's Xps supports the full PostScript language and renders in color, grayscale, or monochrome. Fonts displayed are anti-aliased. Info: Image Network, +1 415 967 0542. Digital's dxpsview runs on UWS 2.1 and 2.2. Sun's pageview runs with the X11/NeWS server. Showpage, the PostScript previewer from Adobe Systems, is available from ICS as part of the Display PostScript System for Sun Solaris 1 (SunOS). More information is available from ICS at info@ics.com, or +1 617 621 0060, or Fax at +1 617 621 9555, http://www.ics.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 94) Where can I get an X-based GKS package? The latest freely-available XGKS can be obtained from xgks-request@unidata.ucar.edu; this is a 2c implementation derived from the X11R4 contrib XGKS from IBM and the University of Illinois. The release is on unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] as pub/xgks.tar.Z. [12/90] In addition, Grafpak-GKS is available from Advanced Technology Center (714-583-9119). GKSUL is available from gks@ulowell.edu (ULowell CS department). It is a 2b implementation which includes drivers for a variety of devices. It can be passed an X window ID to use. The package includes both C and Fortran bindings. [11/90; from dsrand@mitre.org and from stew@hanauma.stanford.edu] An XgksWidget is produced by Neil Bowers (neilb@leeds.dcs; neilb@dcs.leeds.ac.uk); the latest [10/91] conforms with the new version of XGKS (2.4). It is available on ftp.x.org in R5contrib/xgks-widget.tar.Z. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 95)! Where can I get an X-based GL package? Ygl 2.8 (by Fred Hucht, fred@thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE) emulates most of the two dimensional drawing routines and the window, queue, color (cmap/RGB) stuff, doublebuffering and more. Ygl is available from ftp.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE (134.91.141.1), as pub/source/X11/Ygl.tar.gz. [Version 2.9.5 current as of 7/95]. For more information see http://www.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE/Ygl/ReadMe.html. Certain vendors (SGI, IBM) are offering a GL package for X. VOGL/VOGLE from gondwana.ecr.mu.oz.au: /pub/vogle.tar.{Z.gz} and pub/vogl.tar.{Z.gz} handle 3D drawing operations. VOGL is closer to GL than VOGLE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 96) Where can I get an X-based PEX package? The first official release of PEX is with X11R5; fix-22 brings the Sample Implementation server to version 5.1. The PEX 5.2 Protocol specification is now available via anonymous ftp to ftp.x.org, in the directory /pub/DOCS/PEX/. [8/94] There is now available from the University of Illinois an implementation of the PEX 4.0 specification called UIPEX. It contains a "near- complete" implementation of PHiGS and PHiGS PLUS. The file pub/uipex/uipex.tar.Z is on a.cs.uiuc.edu (128.174.252.1); the porting platform was an RT running 4.3. Questions and comments can to go uipex@cs.uiuc.edu. In addition, the PEXt toolkit by Rich Thomson (rthomson@dsd.es.com) is available on ftp.x.org as PEXt.tar.Z; it includes a PEX widget making it easier to include PEX in Xt-based programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 97) Where can I get an X-based TeX or DVI previewer? The xtex previewer for TeX files is available from a number of archive sites, including uunet; the current version is usually on ftp.cs.colorado.edu (128.138.204.31) in SeeTeX-2.18.5.tar.Z; pre-converted fonts are also on that machine. The distribution all includes "mftobdf" which converts PK, GF, and PXL fonts to BDF format, where they can then be compiled for use by your local X server. The xdvi dvi-previewer is fairly comprehensive and easy to use. It is also available from a number of sites, including uunet and ftp.x.org; current version is patchlevel 16 [12/92]. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 98) Where can I get an X-based troff previewer? xditview, a previewer for device-independent troff, is in contrib in X11R6; it was a supported client in X11R5 and X11R4. X11R4 also offers the contributed xtroff; an earlier version of xtroff also appeared on the R3 contributed source. In addition, the xman client can be used to preview troff documents which use the -man macros (i.e. man pages). If psroff is used its output can be viewed with a PostScript previewer. Groff, a C++-based [tn]roff document formatter from the Free Software Foundation, includes an X-based document previwer based probably on xditview. Groff can put out both dvi and PostScript, so xdvi or GhostView can be used to preview formatted documents. In addition: xproof, an X previewer for ditroff has been contributed by Marvin Solomon (solomon@cs.wisc.edu); version 3.5 is available on ftp.x.org in R5contrib/xproof*. [8/90] Elan Computer Group (CA: 415-964-2200) produces eroff, a modified troff implementation, and Elan/Express, an X11 eroff previewer. SoftQuad (416-239-4801, USA only 800-387-2777; mail@sq.com) offers SoftQuad Publishing Software, including a substantially- rewritten troff formatter, a better intermediate language with backwards compatibility, and an X11[R3,R4] previewer. (This is the package adopted by AT&T's own MIS department, and used in and re-sold by many parts of AT&T). [information from Ian Darwin, SoftQuad (ian@sq.com) 3/90] Image Network (1-800-TOXROFF; CA: 415-967-0542) offers the Xroff package, which includes a fine modified troff implementation and a set of X11-based page previewers. (This is the package OEM'ed by several hardware vendors.) [mostly courtesy moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes)] [2/90] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 99)! Where can I get a WYSIWYG interface builder (or other shortcuts)? A release of the DIRT interface builder by Richard Hesketh works with X11R5 and includes some support for the Motif widget set. It generates WCL-1.1 code. DIRT is known to be outdated. It is available through comp.sources.x archives. The InterViews 3.0.1 C++ toolkit contains a WYSIWIG interface builder called ibuild. ibuild generates code for an InterViews application complete with Imakefile and an X-resource file. Documentation is /pub/papers/ibuild.ps on interviews.stanford.edu (36.22.0.175). Quest Windows's (408-496-1900) ObjectViews C++ package includes an interactive building tool. Druid (Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development) runs on SPARC machines using OSF/Motif 1.0; it is intended eventually to be a full UIMS but apparently now has only support for creating the presentation components, for which it generates C/UIL code. Info: Singh G, Kok CH, Ngan TY, "Druid: A System for Demonstrational Rapid User Interface Development". Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH Symp on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST'90). ACM, NY, 1990, pp:167-177. The XF builder (version 2.3.n) is a TCL/Tk builder; versions are on harbor.ecn.purdue.edu. You may subscribe to a mailing list by sending "sub xf-l " to listserv@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de. There are several TCL/TK tools which act as interface builders; see the comp.lang.tcl FAQ for details. ADEW in the Andrew User Interface System supports WYSIWYG user interface construction with the full selection of AUIS insets, including text, rasters, tables, and the usual interactors. Semantics can be coded in C or in Ness, the AUIS extension language. Camel, a generic IDT for Xt widget sets, is available from R.N.Tearle@hertfordshire.ac.uk. Also: In addition, these commercial products (unsorted) are available in final or prerelease form [the * following the product name indicates that the product is known to allow the designer to specify for each widget whether a particular resource is hard-coded or written to an application defaults file, for at least one form of output]. Some are much more than user-interface tools; some are full user interface management systems; information on most is not up-to-date: Product Name Look/Feel Code Output Vendor HP Interface Motif 1.1 C(Xm) HP/Visual Edge Architect/ UIMX OPEN LOOK Express OPEN LOOK C(Xol+ helper lib) AT&T / Visual Edge UIMX 2.0 * Motif 1.1 C(Xm + helper code) Visual Edge 514-332-6430 & distributors X-Designer 3.2 * Motif 1.2 C(Xm); C/UIL; C++ Imperial Software Technology, Ltd (+44 734 587055) sales@ist.co.uk US:413-586-4144 XFaceMaker2 (XFM2) * Motif 1.0 C;C/script (C-like procedural language);C/UIL NSL (33 1 43 36 77 50) requests@nsl.fr Builder Xcessory 3.5 * Motif 1.2 C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w] ICS Ada; and reads GIL (617-621-0060) info@ics.com http://www.ics.com Builder Xcessory 2.6 * Motif 1.1 C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w] DEC [VMS; OSF/1] (1-800-DIGITAL) iXBUILD Motif 1.1 C(Xm); C/UIL iXOS Software karl@ixos.uucp 089/461005-69 TeleUSE 2.1 * Motif 1.1.5 C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w] Alsys(TeleSoft) (619-457-2700) gui_info@telesoft.com in Germany: in GmbH, +49 7531 65022, gvr@in-gmbh.de ezX 3.2 Motif 1.1 C(Xm +helper lib);C/UIL;Ada Sunrise (401-847-7868) info@sunrise.com Snapix Motif C/Xm ADNT +33 1 3956 5333 OpenWindows Developers OPEN LOOK GIL [-> C/XView] Sun Guide 3.0 GIL [-> C++/XView] GIL [-> C/OLIT] GIL [-> C/PostScript for TNT] ExoCode/SXM Motif C(Xm) Expert Object ExoCode/Plus OPEN LOOK XView 708-676-5555 TAE Plus v5.3 Motif 1.2; C, C++ , Ada Century Computing Dynamic tae-info@cen.com Data Objects 1-800-823-3228 http://www.cen.com/ MOB, XSculptor Motif; OpenLook C/Xm,UIL; C/Xol Kovi 408-982-3840 PSM PM, MSW 3.0, C/UIL Lancorp Motif 1.1.2,Mac Pty Ltd. +61 3 629 4833 Fax: 629 1296 (Australia) MOTIFATION * Motif 1.1.x|1.2 C(Xm) PEM Stuttgart +49 (0) 0711/713045 +49 (0) 0711/713047 fax basien@pem-stuttgart.de UIB Open Look/Motif C++(OI) ParcPlace +1 303-678-4626 ILOG BUILDER Motif ILOG 1 415 390 9000 info@ilog.com XVT-Design Motif,OL,Windows,&c XVT 303-443-4223 info@xvt.com Mimex Motif 1.2 C(Xm); C/UIL[r/w] Kernex 408-441-7376 Xad Motif 1.2 ACC, 800-546-7274, 203-454-5500, info@acc-corp.com XVP 1.5 Motif http://www.shsu.edu/~stdyxc05/VXP ftp.shsu.edu:/pub/VXP Look for magazine reviews for more complete comparisons of meta-file formats, documentation, real ease-of-use, etc; Unix World and Unix Review often carry articles. See also SunExpert 5/93. ParcPlace is making freely available its popular ObjectBuilder and Object Interface (OI) products for the Linux operating system. ObjectBuilder is a GUI builder written completely in C++, that enables UNIX C++ developers to apply the principles of object-orientation to the development of user interfaces. OI, a C++ class library, provides the toolkit foundation for ObjectBuilder. OI implements the look-and-feel of both Motif 1.2 and OPEN LOOK. OI is built directly on top of Xlib and is unencumbered by runtime royalties to any party. ObjectBuilder and OI are very extensible, actively facilitating the use of subclassing to create new, reusable, user interface components. Sources are on tsx-11.mit.edu in /pub/linux/packages/OI and available from ParcPlace (+1 408 481 9090). Neuron Data (1 415 321-4488) makes Open Interface, a window-system-independent object toolkit which supports interfaces which are or resemble (supersets of) Mac, Windows, and Motif and Open Look; the package includes an interface builder. The GRAMMI builder supports the development of Ada/X applications using its own set of objects which have Motif look and feel. GRAMMI is written in Ada and generates Ada specs and stub bodies. Call 1-800-877-1815 or send mail to info_server@evb.com with subject "send grammi" [without quotes]. In addition, these non-WYSIWYG but related products may help for goals of rapid prototyping of the application interface: WCL: the Widget Creation Library. Basically describes the widget hierarchy and actions in a resources file; available from fine archive servers everywhere, including devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.1.143) in pub/. Wcl provides a very thin layer over Xt without any internal tweaking. Version 2.7 is in ftp.x.org:~ftp/contrib/devel_tools/Wcl-2.7.tar.Z[gz] [12/94]. (A tutorial on WCL is available by telnet'ing to techinfo.mit.edu and using "search iap292".) TCL/TK: TK is a Motif-like object set for use with the TCL scripting language. There is also a package tclMotif on ftp.x.org which may be used to add TCL scripting to Motif programs; version 1.4 was released 4/95. WAFE: Wafe is a package that implements a symbolic interface to the Athena widgets (X11R5) and OSF/Motif. A typical Wafe application consists of two parts: a front-end (Wafe) and an application program which runs typically as a separate process. The application program can be implemented in an arbitrary programming language and talks to the front-end via stdio. Since Wafe (the front-end) was developed using the extensible TCL shell, an application program can dynamically submit requests to the front-end to build up the graphical user interface; the application can also down-load application specific procedures into the front-end, which can be executed without interaction with the application program. Wafe 1.0 is available from ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/X11/wafe/wafe-1.0.tar.gz [7/94]. XGEN: a scripting language which can be used to prototype Motif environments; available on ftp.x.org. WINTERP: an Xlisp-based Motif toolkit (by Niels Mayer) allows for rapid prototyping and interpretive programming. Its interactive application development and delivery environment features a high-level object-oriented interface to the OSF/Motif Widgets and Xtoolkit, a high-level object-oriented 2.5D graphics/animation widget based on Xtango's path-transition animation paradigm, and facilities for communicating with other Unix processes and data. WINTERP's interpreter is "serverized" so that other applications can communicate with WINTERP-based applications via unix domain sockets, or optionally, through internet domain sockets. WINTERP's built-in interpreter is based on XLISP-PLUS, which is a small, fast, portable, C-implemented interpreter providing a subset of Common-Lisp functionality and a Smalltalk-inspired object system. A major new release, WINTERP 2.03, is on the X11R6 contrib tapes; version 2.03 [7/94] is on ftp.x.org in contrib/devel_tools/. Info: winterp-source@netcom.com. See also http://www.eit.com/software/winterp/winterp.html IXI Visual TCL extends Tcl 7.3 to support OSF/Motif 1.2. Available from ftp.sco.com:~/TLS/tls074.* or //www.sco.com/Products/vtcl/vtcl.html. [5/95] The Serpent UIMS permits the building of user-interfaces without specific knowledge of coding but with an understanding of attributes being set on a particular [Motif] widget. Beta Release 1.2 is available from ftp.sei.cmu.edu (128.237.1.13) and can be found in /pub/serpent. Serpent is also available on ftp.x.org (18.24.0.11) in /R5contrib/serpent. Email questions can go to serpent@sei.cmu.edu. A commercial version of Serpent is available as "Agora" from ASET, 221 Woodhaven Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15228. Garnet is a Common Lisp-based GUI toolkit. Information is available from garnet@cs.cmu.edu. MetaCard is a hypertext/Rapid Application Development environment similar to Apple/Claris Corporation's HyperCard (info@metacard.com). MetaCard is available via anonymous FTP from ftp.metacard.com, csn.org, or 128.138.213.21. (Mailing list: listserv@grot.starconn.com). XForms, at bloch.phys.uwm.edu as /pub/xforms, is a graphical user interface toolkit and builder based on Xlib. It includes a set of Xlib-based objects, configurable to look like Motif, and permits interactive placement of them. See also http://bragg.phys.uwm.edu/xforms and the mailing list available through xforms-request@cs.ruu.nl. Articles comparing these tools include: UnixWorld 5/92; SunWorld 12/92; LAN Computing 12/92; SunExpert 5/93. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David B. Lewis faq%craft@uunet.uu.net "Just the FAQs, ma'am." -- Joe Friday