Welcome to the Online Tour of The OPEN LOOK and XView Source and Documentation CD-ROM!

We've organized this online tour using HTML to allow you to browse it with Mosaic, Netscape, TkWWW, or your favorite Web viewer. If you are on the Internet, this will also allow you to follow links to the outside, of which there are some few scattered throughout the tour.

Before you start, you may need to tell your Web Viewer about certain file types. For Mosaic, the files in the WebHelpers directory can be added to your .mime.types and .mailcap file, or can be used to create those files. For other browswers, you may need to enter this information manually in a "Helper Applications" dialog.

This is The OPEN LOOK and XView Source and Documentation CD-ROM (formerly called The OPEN LOOK GUI, XView and NeWS Archive). We have collected three full OPEN LOOK textbooks, the example programs from several OPEN LOOK and X11 programming texts, the latest versions of libraries, and many useful programs. And we've compiled many of them for both Linux and SunOS, so that you can run them out of the box on two of the highest-volume UNIX platforms in use today. We've also provided pre-built search indexes for Sun's SearchIt and Adobe's Acrobat Catalog searching tools to help you find specific information that you need.

Overview

Here is an approximage pictorial overview of the CD's contents:

In a little more detail:

README - text version of this information
book - top-level for textbooks. There are two books from the O'Reilly X series, Volume 3, User's Guide, OPEN LOOK edition (draft), and Volume 7, XView Programming (Volume 7A, Programming Manual and Volume 7B, XView Reference). All three are online in both PostScript and PDF.
doc - top-level for other documents such as FAQ's
index.html - this file
indices - pre-built search indexes
man - top level for man pages (included in troff, catable, PostScript and PDF)
src - top-level for megabytes of source code
src - XView Program source
src - NeWS Program source
viewers - Viewers for PostScript and PDF
demos - top-level for commercial demos

Window Systems Source Code

Since this archive is intended to be of interest to, among others, window system afficionados, we've also included the source code for not one but two complete window systems:

The X Window System, Version 11, Release 6, Patch Level 11
The MGR Window System by Steve Uhler of Bellcore. Not at all compatible with X11: mgr is small, simple, and very fast.

Licensing.

Most of this CD-ROM is freeware. However, the text books are covered by a separate license.

Tell us...

We hope you're satisfied with your OPEN LOOK, XView and News Archive CD. If you have suggestions for improvements, please e-mail us at olcd@darwinsys.com. Please tell us about additional XView software that we should include. If you'd like to order additional copies for your friends, you can call us at +1 800-463-2108 or check out our World Wide Web pages (if that fails, check for our proposed World Wide Web pages.

Upgrades

This is our first version of the OPEN LOOK and XView Source and Documentation CD-ROM, and we will undoubtedly find many ways to make it better over the next few months. If you're interested in an upgrade at very reasonable rates, contact us at one of the above addresses or try this or this.

We hope to include

a single merged version of XView that compiles on every UNIX and UNIX-like system in site and has all the latest fixes;
still more XView programs;
more commercial demos;
everything for Linux compiled with ELF (which should be in common use by then);
support for additional platforms
better full-text indexing
better hyperlinks in the PDF, particularly Volume 3 OPEN LOOK
more and more useful full-text search indexes.

In short, more of everything, and better. But we can only do this if we sell enough copies of the first version. So if you like it, please tell your friends!

If you'd be interested in an "inheritance filesystem" overlay update, please let us know that too.