Chad Price (cprice at molbio.unmc.edu) wrote:
: Dr.Greg Quinn wrote:
: >
: > Mr SMNN Faruque (s.faruque at umds.ac.uk) wrote:
: > : > eXodus from White Pine Software
: >
: > : the demo of this was terrible. Unlike eXodus (for MSWindows), all the
: > : X-Windows appeared inside a single Mac window and I couldn't seem to
: > : switch between X-Windows.
: >
: > Set the window manager to run 'rootless mac windws' rather than the
: > default rooted, which is no use for wpi. I didn't think the demo was bad,
: Rootless motif is even better. On a Mac using rootless motif, it looks just like
: it does on my Sun Console. I couldn't ask for more.
: Just remember to allocate enough memory for it (I've set it to 16MB, and run up to
: 10 or more X-wondows using eXodus.)
: > but at $240 a pop, it's a bit expensive.
: If your institute has lots of users, try site licence. It comes down to less than
: half that.
Actually a *lot* less than half of that; after writing that post, White
Pine contacted me and it turns out sell that software to my university here
at a really good price, making it extremely viable to load it onto many
machines.
