[Info-vax] Decwindows Motif V1.1 kit

[Paul Hardy]

Paul Hardy <p.g.hardy at btinternet.com> wrote:
> For a software archaeology project, I’m trying to replicate using SimH a
> specific VAX system from my working past. The original cluster kept back a
> node at VAX VMS 5.5-2H4, to use for compilation as that was the only
> approved version to feed executables into VEST to create Alpha executables.
> The application was a graphical one, so we used DECWindows and the Motif
> toolkit.
> 
> I’ve successfully created a VMS 5.5-2H4 system with the applications
> loaded, but the DECWindows on the media is “DECWindows V5.4” which is the
> pre-motif XUI DECWindows. So the apps fail trying to load DECW$XMLIBSHR. 
> 
> The applications I’m trying to run were linked against “DW V1.1-920519”. I
> do have the DECWindows Motif that comes with 7.3 which is “DW
> V1.2-5981104”, but I’d prefer not to skip to V1.2, as it used more colours
> in the primary colour tables, and had DPS removed etc, which would restrict
> the applications. 
> 
> So, does anyone have a media kit for VAX DECWindows Motif V1.1? Or more
> generally, is there anywhere with old media kits for download? I’ll also
> need some other layered products for VMS 5.5, such as Fortran, so a ConDist
> for 5.5 would be really useful.
> 
> I do have current Hobbyist licensing, so it just the kits I need.
> 
> Regards,
> 
Thanks to Stephen Schweda of http://antinode.info for his prompt and
helpful reply with a download link for the Motif V1.1 kit. I can now run my
old software!

Also to Dennis Boone for a pointer to downloadable condists. 

I do have one odd problem, in that all works fine with Motif when logged on
as System, but when I log on as a group 100 user, the window manager
doesn’t start. I get the session manager up and can start Decterms,
Fileview etc, but I don’t get the Motif window manager surrounding
controls. If I then run Decw$mwm from a Decterm it starts fine, and behaves
fine, so quotas are OK. There are no errors in the SM log file. I checked
that Window Manager is in the autostart options list. The login.com looks
ok. Anybody any ideas or strategies for tracking it down?


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