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+= The OPEN LOOK and XView CD-ROM (Archived)
+
+Lifetimes ago, I wrote a book for O'Reilly Media called
+_X Windows User Guide: The OPEN LOOK Edition_.
+For those unfamiliar with the history, there were three implementations
+of the OPEN LOOK specification:
+
+. NeWS, the Network Extensible Window System, originated by James Gosling
+at Sun, who later invented the Java language;
+. OLIT, the OPEN LOOK Intrinsics Toolkit, based on the Unix X Toolkit;
+. XView, by Sun Microsystems, based on the programing paradigm of 
+their earlier SunView toolkit.
+
+Of these three, to my knowledge only XView was ever released
+in source form, certainly so at the time.
+Gosling once told me that NeWS had too many components from too
+many other software vendors for them ever to open source it.
+
+Unfortunately, at the time I completed writing this book,
+Sun Microsystems pulled the plug on OPEN LOOK,
+caving to Motif and effectively ending the "Unix UI Wars"
+in return for getting a bunch of their stuff included into the
+Common Desktop Environment (CDE).
+
+In the aftermath of O'Reilly's decision not to publish the book,
+I made it available on CD-ROM, and sold it through Amazon,
+making me one of the few hundred earliest Amazon sellers 
+other than major publishers.
+In all we sold a few hundred copies over several years.
+At this time, it seemed that Bruce Tognozzini's wish that OPEN LOOK
+"be towed out to sea and given a decent burial" had come true,
+and so I abandoned sales and put the CD-ROM up for FTP download.
+
+You can read the README-orig.txt[original README file here].
+
+After several changes of server and server software, this
+arrangement fell apart.
+So now I am putting what's left of it up on GitHub
+for anyone to pick over the remains. This was created by reading
+from one of my last remaining copies of the CD.
+
+== Caveat Lector: Some files are missing.
+
+First, I've removed all binary programs, since what worked on 
+Linux or Solaris in the mid-1990's just isn't going to be useful today.
+Second, some files simply weren't able to be copied from the last
+copy of the CD-ROM that I could find.
+
+----
+dalai--asciidoctor $ cp -r /mnt ~/olcd
+cp: readlink: /mnt/book/vol3ol/psrun: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/book/vol3ol/psrun.awk: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/book/vol7b/psrun: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/book/vol7b/psrun.awk: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/NeWS/news-tape/applications/newsline/pguide: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/book-examples/ora-vol1xlib: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/book-examples/ora-vol4athena: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/book-examples/ora-vol4motif: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/book-examples/ora-vol6motif: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/alpha-osf1/cursor.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/alpha-osf1/dps.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/alpha-osf1/gs.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/alpha-osf1/psview.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/alpha-osf1/psview.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/alpha-osf1/version.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/alpha-osf1/xpsview.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/mips-ultrix/cursor.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/mips-ultrix/dps.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/mips-ultrix/gs.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/mips-ultrix/psview.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/mips-ultrix/psview.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/mips-ultrix/version.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/mips-ultrix/xpsview.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/sol2/cursor.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/sol2/dps.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/sol2/gs.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/sol2/psview.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/sol2/psview.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/sol2/version.h: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/motif/psview/sol2/xpsview.c: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/NeWS: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/window-managers/olwm: Invalid argument
+cp: readlink: /mnt/src/window-managers/olwmslave: Invalid argument
+----
+
+If you can find any of the missing files, well, this is GitHub,
+so clone the repo and send a pull request.
+Or, for individual files, you could just email them to me.