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So, for a while now I've been working in creating a web site for a more maintained set of information for #motif programming, xlib programming, etc.
See: https://motif-central.org
It's perhaps a work in progress still, but the idea is to pull together all of the tidbits of information that's been floating about recently.
If anyone has any desire to help, the repo for this is here:
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/motif-central
Deployment happens via Codeberg actions, once code has been pushed on the `main` branch.
I hope someone finds it useful or at least interesting.
Thanks to: @gemelen, @jns, @techokami, and no doubt others I've forgotten!
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So, for a while now I've been working in creating a web site for a more maintained set of information for #motif programming, xlib programming, etc.
See: https://motif-central.org
It's perhaps a work in progress still, but the idea is to pull together all of the tidbits of information that's been floating about recently.
If anyone has any desire to help, the repo for this is here:
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/motif-central
Deployment happens via Codeberg actions, once code has been pushed on the `main` branch.
I hope someone finds it useful or at least interesting.
Thanks to: @gemelen, @jns, @techokami, and no doubt others I've forgotten!
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So, for a while now I've been working in creating a web site for a more maintained set of information for #motif programming, xlib programming, etc.
See: https://motif-central.org
It's perhaps a work in progress still, but the idea is to pull together all of the tidbits of information that's been floating about recently.
If anyone has any desire to help, the repo for this is here:
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/motif-central
Deployment happens via Codeberg actions, once code has been pushed on the `main` branch.
I hope someone finds it useful or at least interesting.
Thanks to: @gemelen, @jns, @techokami, and no doubt others I've forgotten!
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So, for a while now I've been working in creating a web site for a more maintained set of information for #motif programming, xlib programming, etc.
See: https://motif-central.org
It's perhaps a work in progress still, but the idea is to pull together all of the tidbits of information that's been floating about recently.
If anyone has any desire to help, the repo for this is here:
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/motif-central
Deployment happens via Codeberg actions, once code has been pushed on the `main` branch.
I hope someone finds it useful or at least interesting.
Thanks to: @gemelen, @jns, @techokami, and no doubt others I've forgotten!
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So, for a while now I've been working in creating a web site for a more maintained set of information for #motif programming, xlib programming, etc.
See: https://motif-central.org
It's perhaps a work in progress still, but the idea is to pull together all of the tidbits of information that's been floating about recently.
If anyone has any desire to help, the repo for this is here:
https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/motif-central
Deployment happens via Codeberg actions, once code has been pushed on the `main` branch.
I hope someone finds it useful or at least interesting.
Thanks to: @gemelen, @jns, @techokami, and no doubt others I've forgotten!
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@drj -- this motif font editor is awesome.
I've got a massive book by O'Reilly on Fonts, and I've never really read it. I bought it because back in the day it seemed like something I'd be interested in.
My knowledge of fonts stopped at the XLFD specification which quickly became out of date, alas.
What was interesting about xmbdfed though is the way glyphs (if that's the correct word?) were created on a grid. This instantly reminded me of a similar concept on the BBC Micro, alas, I cannot recall the name of the program now.
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@drj -- this motif font editor is awesome.
I've got a massive book by O'Reilly on Fonts, and I've never really read it. I bought it because back in the day it seemed like something I'd be interested in.
My knowledge of fonts stopped at the XLFD specification which quickly became out of date, alas.
What was interesting about xmbdfed though is the way glyphs (if that's the correct word?) were created on a grid. This instantly reminded me of a similar concept on the BBC Micro, alas, I cannot recall the name of the program now.
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@drj -- this motif font editor is awesome.
I've got a massive book by O'Reilly on Fonts, and I've never really read it. I bought it because back in the day it seemed like something I'd be interested in.
My knowledge of fonts stopped at the XLFD specification which quickly became out of date, alas.
What was interesting about xmbdfed though is the way glyphs (if that's the correct word?) were created on a grid. This instantly reminded me of a similar concept on the BBC Micro, alas, I cannot recall the name of the program now.
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@drj -- this motif font editor is awesome.
I've got a massive book by O'Reilly on Fonts, and I've never really read it. I bought it because back in the day it seemed like something I'd be interested in.
My knowledge of fonts stopped at the XLFD specification which quickly became out of date, alas.
What was interesting about xmbdfed though is the way glyphs (if that's the correct word?) were created on a grid. This instantly reminded me of a similar concept on the BBC Micro, alas, I cannot recall the name of the program now.
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@drj -- this motif font editor is awesome.
I've got a massive book by O'Reilly on Fonts, and I've never really read it. I bought it because back in the day it seemed like something I'd be interested in.
My knowledge of fonts stopped at the XLFD specification which quickly became out of date, alas.
What was interesting about xmbdfed though is the way glyphs (if that's the correct word?) were created on a grid. This instantly reminded me of a similar concept on the BBC Micro, alas, I cannot recall the name of the program now.
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"Motif Reference Manual for Motif 6B"
See:
I have Volume 6A already, but the follow-up to this is -- Volume 6B -- elusive in the UK (United Kingdom).
I've done the usual searches on eBay, Amazon, AbeBooks, etc., and all are turning up blank. OR, such a book is available, but will cost over £100 after shipping, etc., usually from the US.
Something I'm reluctant to consider at this point.
So, does anyone who reads the crap I post here, have any ideas where I can source a copy of this books, or know someone who has a copy and is willing to part with it.
More than happy to pay for it, of course.
Any help is gratefully received and appreciated. :)
Thanks all! Let me know if you have any questions, etc.
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"Motif Reference Manual for Motif 6B"
See:
I have Volume 6A already, but the follow-up to this is -- Volume 6B -- elusive in the UK (United Kingdom).
I've done the usual searches on eBay, Amazon, AbeBooks, etc., and all are turning up blank. OR, such a book is available, but will cost over £100 after shipping, etc., usually from the US.
Something I'm reluctant to consider at this point.
So, does anyone who reads the crap I post here, have any ideas where I can source a copy of this books, or know someone who has a copy and is willing to part with it.
More than happy to pay for it, of course.
Any help is gratefully received and appreciated. :)
Thanks all! Let me know if you have any questions, etc.
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"Motif Reference Manual for Motif 6B"
See:
I have Volume 6A already, but the follow-up to this is -- Volume 6B -- elusive in the UK (United Kingdom).
I've done the usual searches on eBay, Amazon, AbeBooks, etc., and all are turning up blank. OR, such a book is available, but will cost over £100 after shipping, etc., usually from the US.
Something I'm reluctant to consider at this point.
So, does anyone who reads the crap I post here, have any ideas where I can source a copy of this books, or know someone who has a copy and is willing to part with it.
More than happy to pay for it, of course.
Any help is gratefully received and appreciated. :)
Thanks all! Let me know if you have any questions, etc.
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"Motif Reference Manual for Motif 6B"
See:
I have Volume 6A already, but the follow-up to this is -- Volume 6B -- elusive in the UK (United Kingdom).
I've done the usual searches on eBay, Amazon, AbeBooks, etc., and all are turning up blank. OR, such a book is available, but will cost over £100 after shipping, etc., usually from the US.
Something I'm reluctant to consider at this point.
So, does anyone who reads the crap I post here, have any ideas where I can source a copy of this books, or know someone who has a copy and is willing to part with it.
More than happy to pay for it, of course.
Any help is gratefully received and appreciated. :)
Thanks all! Let me know if you have any questions, etc.
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"Motif Reference Manual for Motif 6B"
See:
I have Volume 6A already, but the follow-up to this is -- Volume 6B -- elusive in the UK (United Kingdom).
I've done the usual searches on eBay, Amazon, AbeBooks, etc., and all are turning up blank. OR, such a book is available, but will cost over £100 after shipping, etc., usually from the US.
Something I'm reluctant to consider at this point.
So, does anyone who reads the crap I post here, have any ideas where I can source a copy of this books, or know someone who has a copy and is willing to part with it.
More than happy to pay for it, of course.
Any help is gratefully received and appreciated. :)
Thanks all! Let me know if you have any questions, etc.
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@drj Sure! Spent some time over lunch looking at this, and...
https://codeberg.org/drj/xmbdfed/pulls/3
Let me know if there's anything which isn't clear.
I've not addressed the warnings coming from using a new compiler. They're left outstanding.
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@drj Sure! Spent some time over lunch looking at this, and...
https://codeberg.org/drj/xmbdfed/pulls/3
Let me know if there's anything which isn't clear.
I've not addressed the warnings coming from using a new compiler. They're left outstanding.
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@drj Sure! Spent some time over lunch looking at this, and...
https://codeberg.org/drj/xmbdfed/pulls/3
Let me know if there's anything which isn't clear.
I've not addressed the warnings coming from using a new compiler. They're left outstanding.
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@drj Sure! Spent some time over lunch looking at this, and...
https://codeberg.org/drj/xmbdfed/pulls/3
Let me know if there's anything which isn't clear.
I've not addressed the warnings coming from using a new compiler. They're left outstanding.
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@drj Sure! Spent some time over lunch looking at this, and...
https://codeberg.org/drj/xmbdfed/pulls/3
Let me know if there's anything which isn't clear.
I've not addressed the warnings coming from using a new compiler. They're left outstanding.
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@drj Fedora 44. I'm not using vendored Motif because it's rather ancient and not being well-maintained. The majority of people in the rising Motif resurgence are using Tim's fork because it's being actively maintained and is getting actual fixes and improvements. IIRC there were some actual memory pointer issues with Motif's string handling that would look fine but had subtle issues underneath; Tim actually fixed those issues and unfortunately the side effect is that SegFaults can now happen. You can look through the man pages in Tim's version to see what needs to be changed and then wrap it in a macro if you want to support both new and old (which is what CDE does). If you're stuck, you can file a bug report on Tim's repo https://github.com/thentenaar/motif or try to catch him on IRC in Libera Chat in the #motif channel
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@drj Fedora 44. I'm not using vendored Motif because it's rather ancient and not being well-maintained. The majority of people in the rising Motif resurgence are using Tim's fork because it's being actively maintained and is getting actual fixes and improvements. IIRC there were some actual memory pointer issues with Motif's string handling that would look fine but had subtle issues underneath; Tim actually fixed those issues and unfortunately the side effect is that SegFaults can now happen. You can look through the man pages in Tim's version to see what needs to be changed and then wrap it in a macro if you want to support both new and old (which is what CDE does). If you're stuck, you can file a bug report on Tim's repo https://github.com/thentenaar/motif or try to catch him on IRC in Libera Chat in the #motif channel
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@drj Fedora 44. I'm not using vendored Motif because it's rather ancient and not being well-maintained. The majority of people in the rising Motif resurgence are using Tim's fork because it's being actively maintained and is getting actual fixes and improvements. IIRC there were some actual memory pointer issues with Motif's string handling that would look fine but had subtle issues underneath; Tim actually fixed those issues and unfortunately the side effect is that SegFaults can now happen. You can look through the man pages in Tim's version to see what needs to be changed and then wrap it in a macro if you want to support both new and old (which is what CDE does). If you're stuck, you can file a bug report on Tim's repo https://github.com/thentenaar/motif or try to catch him on IRC in Libera Chat in the #motif channel
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@drj Fedora 44. I'm not using vendored Motif because it's rather ancient and not being well-maintained. The majority of people in the rising Motif resurgence are using Tim's fork because it's being actively maintained and is getting actual fixes and improvements. IIRC there were some actual memory pointer issues with Motif's string handling that would look fine but had subtle issues underneath; Tim actually fixed those issues and unfortunately the side effect is that SegFaults can now happen. You can look through the man pages in Tim's version to see what needs to be changed and then wrap it in a macro if you want to support both new and old (which is what CDE does). If you're stuck, you can file a bug report on Tim's repo https://github.com/thentenaar/motif or try to catch him on IRC in Libera Chat in the #motif channel
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@drj Fedora 44. I'm not using vendored Motif because it's rather ancient and not being well-maintained. The majority of people in the rising Motif resurgence are using Tim's fork because it's being actively maintained and is getting actual fixes and improvements. IIRC there were some actual memory pointer issues with Motif's string handling that would look fine but had subtle issues underneath; Tim actually fixed those issues and unfortunately the side effect is that SegFaults can now happen. You can look through the man pages in Tim's version to see what needs to be changed and then wrap it in a macro if you want to support both new and old (which is what CDE does). If you're stuck, you can file a bug report on Tim's repo https://github.com/thentenaar/motif or try to catch him on IRC in Libera Chat in the #motif channel
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I think I've had this trope the wrong way around.
House of Leaves was riffing on the Minotaur in the maze story.
And likewise haunted ship stories, like Forbidden Planet are, too.
It's just that the sea and space are mazes without walls.
🧵
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I think I've had this trope the wrong way around.
House of Leaves was riffing on the Minotaur in the maze story.
And likewise haunted ship stories, like Forbidden Planet are, too.
It's just that the sea and space are mazes without walls.
🧵
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I think I've had this trope the wrong way around.
House of Leaves was riffing on the Minotaur in the maze story.
And likewise haunted ship stories, like Forbidden Planet are, too.
It's just that the sea and space are mazes without walls.
🧵
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I think I've had this trope the wrong way around.
House of Leaves was riffing on the Minotaur in the maze story.
And likewise haunted ship stories, like Forbidden Planet are, too.
It's just that the sea and space are mazes without walls.
🧵
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I think I've had this trope the wrong way around.
House of Leaves was riffing on the Minotaur in the maze story.
And likewise haunted ship stories, like Forbidden Planet are, too.
It's just that the sea and space are mazes without walls.
🧵
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JFC have I not previously realized that House of Leaves fits these motifs??
-Navidson's hubris and obsession
-Not set on a ship, but there's exploration and a rescue mission
-Descent into madness
-An unseen (possibly imaginary?) beast (with a bull theme, interestingly)🧵
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JFC have I not previously realized that House of Leaves fits these motifs??
-Navidson's hubris and obsession
-Not set on a ship, but there's exploration and a rescue mission
-Descent into madness
-An unseen (possibly imaginary?) beast (with a bull theme, interestingly)🧵
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JFC have I not previously realized that House of Leaves fits these motifs??
-Navidson's hubris and obsession
-Not set on a ship, but there's exploration and a rescue mission
-Descent into madness
-An unseen (possibly imaginary?) beast (with a bull theme, interestingly)🧵
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JFC have I not previously realized that House of Leaves fits these motifs??
-Navidson's hubris and obsession
-Not set on a ship, but there's exploration and a rescue mission
-Descent into madness
-An unseen (possibly imaginary?) beast (with a bull theme, interestingly)🧵
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JFC have I not previously realized that House of Leaves fits these motifs??
-Navidson's hubris and obsession
-Not set on a ship, but there's exploration and a rescue mission
-Descent into madness
-An unseen (possibly imaginary?) beast (with a bull theme, interestingly)🧵
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Don't know what is already implemented in the one mentioned by @techokami, but I may suggest other options, some of which are used by people on regular basis:
- Thai solar // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar
- lunisolar Buddhist // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Observances_on_non-Gregorian_calendars
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Don't know what is already implemented in the one mentioned by @techokami, but I may suggest other options, some of which are used by people on regular basis:
- Thai solar // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar
- lunisolar Buddhist // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Observances_on_non-Gregorian_calendars
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Don't know what is already implemented in the one mentioned by @techokami, but I may suggest other options, some of which are used by people on regular basis:
- Thai solar // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar
- lunisolar Buddhist // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Observances_on_non-Gregorian_calendars
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Don't know what is already implemented in the one mentioned by @techokami, but I may suggest other options, some of which are used by people on regular basis:
- Thai solar // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar
- lunisolar Buddhist // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Observances_on_non-Gregorian_calendars
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Don't know what is already implemented in the one mentioned by @techokami, but I may suggest other options, some of which are used by people on regular basis:
- Thai solar // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_solar_calendar
- lunisolar Buddhist // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_calendarhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Observances_on_non-Gregorian_calendars
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Another application I added to x11cp last night, mxcmap, which shows a colour cube:
https://x11cp.org/apps/mxcmap/
There are so many little utilities like these which people were building -- it's a fascinating piece of X11 history.
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Another application I added to x11cp last night, mxcmap, which shows a colour cube:
https://x11cp.org/apps/mxcmap/
There are so many little utilities like these which people were building -- it's a fascinating piece of X11 history.
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Another application I added to x11cp last night, mxcmap, which shows a colour cube:
https://x11cp.org/apps/mxcmap/
There are so many little utilities like these which people were building -- it's a fascinating piece of X11 history.
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Another application I added to x11cp last night, mxcmap, which shows a colour cube:
https://x11cp.org/apps/mxcmap/
There are so many little utilities like these which people were building -- it's a fascinating piece of X11 history.
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Another application I added to x11cp last night, mxcmap, which shows a colour cube:
https://x11cp.org/apps/mxcmap/
There are so many little utilities like these which people were building -- it's a fascinating piece of X11 history.
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I've updated x11cp.org with some other applications:
Thanks to @techokami I've now included:
- mdgclock: https://x11cp.org/apps/mdgclock/
- mxascii: https://x11cp.org/apps/mxascii/
Enjoy!
As a reminder, this project exists to keep this older x11/motif stuff around, Any questions, please ask.
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I've updated x11cp.org with some other applications:
Thanks to @techokami I've now included:
- mdgclock: https://x11cp.org/apps/mdgclock/
- mxascii: https://x11cp.org/apps/mxascii/
Enjoy!
As a reminder, this project exists to keep this older x11/motif stuff around, Any questions, please ask.
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I've updated x11cp.org with some other applications:
Thanks to @techokami I've now included:
- mdgclock: https://x11cp.org/apps/mdgclock/
- mxascii: https://x11cp.org/apps/mxascii/
Enjoy!
As a reminder, this project exists to keep this older x11/motif stuff around, Any questions, please ask.
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I've updated x11cp.org with some other applications:
Thanks to @techokami I've now included:
- mdgclock: https://x11cp.org/apps/mdgclock/
- mxascii: https://x11cp.org/apps/mxascii/
Enjoy!
As a reminder, this project exists to keep this older x11/motif stuff around, Any questions, please ask.
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I've updated x11cp.org with some other applications:
Thanks to @techokami I've now included:
- mdgclock: https://x11cp.org/apps/mdgclock/
- mxascii: https://x11cp.org/apps/mxascii/
Enjoy!
As a reminder, this project exists to keep this older x11/motif stuff around, Any questions, please ask.
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Bought this book today. Despite the lack of CDROM I’m still disappointed.
I originally tried to buy this on Amazon. It was declined. I cannot but help think Daniel Flannagen has something to do with this.
I’ve been interested in this book for some time. The fact the CDROM is missing is frustrating.
If anyone can help locate it I’m grateful.
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Bought this book today. Despite the lack of CDROM I’m still disappointed.
I originally tried to buy this on Amazon. It was declined. I cannot but help think Daniel Flannagen has something to do with this.
I’ve been interested in this book for some time. The fact the CDROM is missing is frustrating.
If anyone can help locate it I’m grateful.
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Bought this book today. Despite the lack of CDROM I’m still disappointed.
I originally tried to buy this on Amazon. It was declined. I cannot but help think Daniel Flannagen has something to do with this.
I’ve been interested in this book for some time. The fact the CDROM is missing is frustrating.
If anyone can help locate it I’m grateful.
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Bought this book today. Despite the lack of CDROM I’m still disappointed.
I originally tried to buy this on Amazon. It was declined. I cannot but help think Daniel Flannagen has something to do with this.
I’ve been interested in this book for some time. The fact the CDROM is missing is frustrating.
If anyone can help locate it I’m grateful.
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Bought this book today. Despite the lack of CDROM I’m still disappointed.
I originally tried to buy this on Amazon. It was declined. I cannot but help think Daniel Flannagen has something to do with this.
I’ve been interested in this book for some time. The fact the CDROM is missing is frustrating.
If anyone can help locate it I’m grateful.
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Some of you might recall I started the (poorly named) x11cp project some six years ago:
Given the interest in this, and some other ideas around trying to centralise motif development, I've recently been spurred on to updated it.
So that's what I've just done.
I've not added any new projects, but the existing projects now compile without warnings, and for some of them have a few enhancements/bug-fixes.
Right now, the #x11cp IRC channel on libera.chat is a hold-all for further discussions for motif development, etc. If that interests you, please join.
Thanks to @r1w1s1 and @techokami for nudging me on this.
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Some of you might recall I started the (poorly named) x11cp project some six years ago:
Given the interest in this, and some other ideas around trying to centralise motif development, I've recently been spurred on to updated it.
So that's what I've just done.
I've not added any new projects, but the existing projects now compile without warnings, and for some of them have a few enhancements/bug-fixes.
Right now, the #x11cp IRC channel on libera.chat is a hold-all for further discussions for motif development, etc. If that interests you, please join.
Thanks to @r1w1s1 and @techokami for nudging me on this.
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Some of you might recall I started the (poorly named) x11cp project some six years ago:
Given the interest in this, and some other ideas around trying to centralise motif development, I've recently been spurred on to updated it.
So that's what I've just done.
I've not added any new projects, but the existing projects now compile without warnings, and for some of them have a few enhancements/bug-fixes.
Right now, the #x11cp IRC channel on libera.chat is a hold-all for further discussions for motif development, etc. If that interests you, please join.
Thanks to @r1w1s1 and @techokami for nudging me on this.
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Some of you might recall I started the (poorly named) x11cp project some six years ago:
Given the interest in this, and some other ideas around trying to centralise motif development, I've recently been spurred on to updated it.
So that's what I've just done.
I've not added any new projects, but the existing projects now compile without warnings, and for some of them have a few enhancements/bug-fixes.
Right now, the #x11cp IRC channel on libera.chat is a hold-all for further discussions for motif development, etc. If that interests you, please join.
Thanks to @r1w1s1 and @techokami for nudging me on this.
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Some of you might recall I started the (poorly named) x11cp project some six years ago:
Given the interest in this, and some other ideas around trying to centralise motif development, I've recently been spurred on to updated it.
So that's what I've just done.
I've not added any new projects, but the existing projects now compile without warnings, and for some of them have a few enhancements/bug-fixes.
Right now, the #x11cp IRC channel on libera.chat is a hold-all for further discussions for motif development, etc. If that interests you, please join.
Thanks to @r1w1s1 and @techokami for nudging me on this.