[UFO Chicago] OLIT Source Code

[Jay F. Shachter]

Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that James L Mazurek would write on Fri Apr 11 17:27:18 2025:

> 
> On Fri, 11 Apr 2025, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
> 
>>
>> Esteemed Colleagues:
>>
>> Does anyone on this mailing list know where I can download the
>> source code to OLIT (the O[pen] Look Interface Toolkit)?
>> Duckduckgo.com didn't tell me anything useful, although perhaps I
>> didn't know the right way to ask.  Thank you in advance.
>>
> 
> Jay,
> 
> I don't know off-hand, does Oracle or some other successor project
> have an archived copy?  Was OLIT ever offered under a permissive
> license?  I can pass this message on to the "Chicago Classic
> Computing" https://groups.io/g/chiclassiccomp email list and see
> what the Sun nerds come back with if you'd like me to?
> 

Please do, and thank you in advance.


>
> What are you attempting to do? Compile/run a program that requires OLIT 
> other than an older version of the OPEN LOOK Window Manager?
> 
> If you happen to be trying [to] compile OLWM for a more contemporary
> machine the XView version was available under a permissive license
> and was briefly available in older versions of some Linux distributions.
> It was available in Debian and there is still a source tarball and
> binaries in the archive.  http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xview/
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Jim
>

Olwm was indeed cool, and the lesser-known olvwm (olwm with virtual
desktops) was everything one could want in a window manager.  But I am
in fact trying to compile something else.  I had written a program
that, with only a few #ifdef's and #endif's, could be compiled either
for the Athena widgets, the OLIT widgets, or the Motif widgets.  I can
still compile it for the Athena and Motif widgets, but I also want to
be able to compile it for the OLIT widgets, because I miss them.


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