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Excerpts from netnews.comp.windows.x: 23-Apr-93 X Toolkits Paul
 

> I get the impression Andrew is from the FSF, but I don't know what it
> looks like either.

The Andrew User Interface System is supported, maintained, enhanced, and
distributed by the Andrew Consortium, Carnegie Mellon.  The distribution
terms are those of the X consortium, not the GNU Public License.  Thus
anyone can commercially exploit the Andrew code without restriction. 


To se what AUIS looks like, you can try a remote demo.  You need an X
server  on a machine linked to the internet.  Give the
command 

	finger  

for instructions.

NOTE:  The demo version does not use the Motif-look-and-feel scrollbar,
but one is available.  You can use it on the demo by changing an option
in the ~/preferences file and starting a new editor.

The Andrew Toolkit component of AUIS is ideal if you want to build
applications using compound documents.  Andrew's major feature is its
architecture for recursive embedding of objects: equation in table in
figure in text, for example.  This architecture extends to areas not
usually found in toolkits, including file stream formats, cut/paste, and
printing.

Andrew also provides some of the most commonly requested applications: 
word processor, spreadsheet, drawing editor, and font editor 

Fred Hansen
Director, Andrew Consortium
