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4 * README *
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7 Edward Groenendaal, 4th April 1992
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9 The X Desktop Manager is a graphical shell for the X Window System,
10 it provides mechanisms for all the usual shell activities and is
11 intended to reduce the training necessary for UNIX novice to become
12 productive on your system.
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14 System requirements: An ANSI compliant C compiler, ideally 'gcc'
15 The X Window system release 4 or 5 libraries.
16 The Athena widget set (header files + library)
17 lex (or flex) and yacc (or bison)
18 a smile on your face :-)
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20 Installation instructions:
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22 1) Unpack the shar archives in order, the archives unpack into the
23 current directory.
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25 2) If you have 'imake(1)' edit the Imakefile for your system,
26 otherwise edit the Imakefile.Old files in the main source
27 directory and the Xedw and regexp directories using the
28 Imakefile as a guide.
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30 3) If you have 'imake(1)' execute the command 'xmkmf' to make the
31 Makefile, followed by 'make Makefiles'.
32 If you DO NOT have imake then copy the Makefile.Old to Makefile
33 in the main source directory AND the Xedw and regexp directories.
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35 4) execute 'make all' to make xdtm.
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37 5) execute 'make install install.man' to install xdtm and the xdtm
38 manual page.
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40 If you have any problems send email to me at : eddyg@cogs.sussex.ac.uk
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43 Ramon Santiago, June 20, 1992
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45 Taking over maintenance and development for Eddy.
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47 I got this to compile easily under the this environment, SunSPARC IPX,
48 SunOS 4.1.1, Sun CC, X11R5 PL12.
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50 If you have any problems send email to me at : rjs@pencom.com
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53 Lionel Mallet, March 29, 1993
54 (Lionel.Mallet@sophia.inria.fr)
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56 Preceeding Ramon Santiago posting of 2.6 to provide a usable 2.4
57 version.
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60 Lionel Mallet, June 4, 1993
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63 Bug fixes release (still before 2.6...). Jim Wight
64 (J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk) has provided hints to make it compile
65 under A/UX.
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68 Lionel Mallet, June 11, 1993
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70 Bug fixes release (still before 2.6...).
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72 Lionel Mallet, August 25, 1993
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74 Bug fixes *and* support for Xpm3 COLORED icons.
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76 Lionel Mallet, September 15, 1993
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78 Version 2.5.1 released.
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80 Lionel Mallet, June 15, 1994
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82 Version 2.5.2 released. New platforms: IBM/AIX 3.2.5,
83 DEC Alpha/OSF1 1.3,2.0, Sun/Solaris 2.3, SGI/IRIX 4.0.5H, Linux
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85 Lionel Mallet, Sep 15, 1994
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87 Version 2.5.3 released. Major bug fixes.
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89 Lionel Mallet, Dec 27, 1994
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91 Version 2.5.5 released. Major bug fixes.
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93 Lionel Mallet, Mar 28, 1995
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95 Version 2.5.6 released. Minor bug fix. Patch release.
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97 Lionel Mallet, Dec 7, 1995
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99 Version 2.5.7 released. New Reload option. Fixed process list
100 management. Fixed Move and Copy bug with tar not complaining
101 about failures (Solaris tar overwrites a file even if not
102 writable). Polished code for ANSI compilers.
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104 Lionel Mallet, Dec 15, 1995
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106 Version 2.5.8 released. Fixed bug in freeing preferences structs
107 before reloading xdtmrc. Thx to Mikhail Teterin
108 <mi@ALDAN.star89.galstar.com> and Jean-Michel.Leon@sophia.inria.fr
109 for helping to track the bug.
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