INFORMATION
 
 
This programming corner focuses on some of the more insidious fields of programming the Motif toolkit. Its purpose is to provide better information about programming techniques. The corner is maintained by Harald Albrecht, albrecht@igpm.rwth-aachen.de -- therefore its name. This web site is located at: 
 
Institute of Geometry and Applied Mathematics (IGPM),
Aachen University of Technology (RWTH),
D-52056 Aachen, Germany.

Are you worrying where Aachen is? Well - we're just living right here on Planet Earth! 

Yesssss, we once managed to recycle an old SPARC as our 'world wide waiting' server and kicked off our NovellTM server. No more refused connections, crashed NLMs, no more real adventures... (sigh) And we even don't think of Windooze NoThanksTM! 

New tips as well as any suggestions are welcome. This way the Motif Corner can become a useful source of technical tips and may hopefully help you to get more out of Motif and avoid the most dreaded pitfalls. 
 
NAVIGATION

Within these web pages you'll notice some recurrent icons. They're indicating the type of operation that will be carried out when you click on them. These icons are: 
Doku Read the online documentation file that always contains the most recent information.
Software Fetch the most recent version of a software package. This will "warp" you to our institute's ftp server or to our campus server. (Scotti! Beam me up!) Please note that this ftp site is located in Aachen, Germany. Beware: the campus net of the Aachen University of Technology is connected to the WIN with a 134MBit/s line, and there is a oversea line (well, it's in fact more like a tube...) to the States connected to us just around the corner in Jülich.
.ps Doku Most often a software package's full documentation is provided as a .dvi file. In case you can't process such .dvi files (or simply you won't) you can instead download a .ps file of the documentation.
X Files Most of the packages described herein are also available from ftp.x.org. This is the X Consortium's ftp server in the USA. Depending on your location this might result in much better transmission speed.
All information in the Motif Corner is organized in a tree-like structure. Hyperlinks let you to dive into the next level of information. To ease the navigation through all levels, there are some more icons. But don't worry, I've kept the hierarchy flat, so it's easy to navigate. 
This moves you either to the previous or the next document within the same level.
This moves you up to the next higher level.
 
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT & DISCLAIMER

Documents located on the IGPM Gopher, FTP, and WWW servers are copyrighted by the "Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik" and protected under the following arrangement: 

Educational institutions are encouraged to reproduce and distribute these materials for educational use as long as credit and notification are provided. Please retain the copyright notice and include this statement with any copies that you make, and send notification of their use to albrecht@igpm.rwth-aachen.de. The commercial use of these materials is prohibited without prior written permission. 

Neither the author nor the "Institut für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik" shall be liable in no event for damages, including any general, special incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the programs or information provided in this materials (including but not limited to loss of data or data rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages. 

Please note that every individual software package is accompanied by a copyright statement in a file COPYING (included in each package). 


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Last Change: 97/08/10 (ab)