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Peter Mattis  
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 More options Dec 14 1995, 3:00 am
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From: p...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Mattis)
Date: 1995/12/14
Subject: Re: Need help choosing a Motif vendor
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In article <DJJK21....@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM>,

Jeff Hughes <jhug...@tooltime.columbiasc.attgis.com> wrote:
>All the distributions so far pretty much meet these demands, yet they vary by as
>much as $100 or more in price.  The more expensive ones like metrolink seem to
>offer little more than printed user's guide(which I can live with only the
>online version) and a promise of better quality(less bugs).  Are there many
>major known problems with for instance SWiM, MoTeeth, or MooTiff.  Also, I
>thought I read something about problems with Motif and gcc-2.7.0.  Do any such
>compilation problems exist?

I can't speak for the ELF version of MooTiff, but from my experience with
the a.out version I would recommend against it. Basically me experience is
this...

Sometime before Thanksgiving I noticed that when you statically link a
binary, the file selection dialog causes a seg fault. I thought this was
my fault, but after narrowing down the problem I discovered I could write
a 20 line program (which is taken almost verbatim from the O'Reiley book)
that reproduces the bug. So I sent mail to the MooTiff technical support
people with the short program that reproduced the bug. All I got back was
an acknowledgement that they were looking into my problem. This was the
week before Thanksgiving. As of today, they still haven't acknowledged the
bug or replied with a fix to my program (indicating that it was really
my fault all along). I have started to pester them, but now I don't even
get my mail returned. Oh yeah, I've also check into other Motif's...they
don't have this problem. (ie Static binaries work fine).

If you are listening MooTiff people, this is not the way to keep
customers. I've already decided that I'm purchasing another version of
Motif for Christmas. I don't expect much technical support, but when I
can point to the function that causes the crash I expect at least some
kind of response or acknowledgement.

Peter Mattis

PS And for all the people out there that want a static binary of the GIMP,
this is the reason there isn't one out yet.


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