Re: [Dorset] C-MOTIF
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2014 07:53:17 Mark Fidell wrote: > Your customer is almost certainly referring to Motif programmed with C, as > opposed to something like C++ Motif. Yes; that's what we think. We've asked him for the versions used for the Unix environment, which should nail it down. > If you're going to the meet up tonight I can bring you a book (a proper > paper thing, bound and everything) to have a look at called Using Motif. Coo. I haven't seen one of those 'paper things' for years :-) I'll be there tonight. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] C-MOTIF
Your customer is almost certainly referring to Motif programmed with C, as opposed to something like C++ Motif. If you're going to the meet up tonight I can bring you a book (a proper paper thing, bound and everything) to have a look at called Using Motif. > On 4 Aug 2014, at 16:50, Terry Coles wrote: > >> On Monday 04 Aug 2014 15:29:30 Alan Levett wrote: >>> On Monday 04 August 2014 14:36:07 d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: >>> Has anyone ever heard of a programming language called C-MOTIF? It has >>> come up in a requirement and Google doesn't throw up any useful hits. I'm >>> wondering if they really mean 'Programming in C for the MOTIF Window >>> Manager'. >> >> Try www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif-(Software) > > I had already found that (well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software) > actually, which works. However, my question wasn't about Motif; I know about > that and have used it many times over the years. My question was about a > Programming language called 'C-MOTIF' which I don't believe ever existed. > >> On my browser, I have a choice of search engines. > > So do I, but Google is usually the most useful. > >> Google is NOT the choice for historical s/ware searches > > So what do you use? I spent a lot of the afternoon looking for 'C-MOTIF' and > discussed this with my colleagues and none of us came up with a reference. > > If no-one has any direct references or experience of using 'C-MOTIF' by > tomorrow, I intend to ask the customer what he means. > > -- > >Terry Coles > > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] C-MOTIF
Hi Terry,
> > > Has anyone ever heard of a programming language called C-MOTIF?
> > > It has come up in a requirement and Google doesn't throw up any
> > > useful hits.
I'm sure there's no such thing.
> > > I'm wondering if they really mean 'Programming in C for the MOTIF
> > > Window Manager'.
>
> I had already found that (well
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software) actually, which works.
Not for me. :-) At least, gnome-terminal's "Open link" stops at the
`_' since `(' can't be part of the URL. This Firefox pastes it out as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_%28software%29
Yes, they mean C programming for the Motif library, libXm, that uses
Intrinsics, libXt, and X11, libX11, along with various other bits.
(mwm, the Motif Window Manager, is different; it's "just" the window
manager that happens to understand mwm-specific "hints" from X clients.)
Back when I was doing it, it was written C/Motif, or Unix/C/Motif, to
indicate the kind of work you did in conversation.
Cheers, Ralph.
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[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meeting Tonight, Tuesday 2014-08-05.
Hi, It's the pub meet tonight at The Broadway, 8pm-ish. For those that haven't been before look out for a clutch of laptops or Terry's stuffed penguin. http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings%3Apub http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=members#terry_coles As the first web page above says, we are often in the pub's "snug", a small room off the right end of the bar. But it isn't reserved for us so we're sometimes to be hunted down elsewhere. See you there! Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Borrow a floppy disk drive
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 00:30 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote: > Got it, Tim; internal quick release from a Dell tower box. Planning > tocome to Broadway tomorrow - Do you need cables too? No, I have cables (and a Dell tower, yay!). Thanks, Tim. */ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2014-08-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
