Anno domini 2020 Wed, 26 Aug 19:37:03 +0100 Thomas Adam scripsit: > Hi, > > I'm curious about a piece of Fvwm history. In the git log for fvwm2, the > initial revision (which is when Jason committed the Fvwm code to CVS), notes > the following for Fvwm 2.0.41: > > Removed FvwmPrompt (use FvwmForm instead, since it's better anyways) > > This was sometime in 1998, although I'm presuming 2.0.41 was before then. > > Has anyone gpt any information about FvwmPrompt? If it were a forerunner to > FvwmForm I've not heard of it before. I note from the old mailing list > archives that it was a compiled module, but I can't find the code anywhere. > > Dust off the cobwebs, folks! > > I'm only asking as I have just committed a new binary to Fvwm3 called > "FvwmPrompt", and hadn't realised it had existed already. I thought I was > being so clever with the choice of name as well... That'll teach me! :) > > -- Thomas > >
Just saw that archive.org has a SUSE from 1996: https://archive.org/details/suse-june_1996_release_i386 It has the oldest version of FVWM on it I have ever worked with - actually, that was one of the versons on the first linux disk sets that got me into linux :) -r--r--r-- 1 root root 59892 Jul 27 1993 tsx-11.mit.edu/sources/usr.bin.X11/fvwm-0.91b.tar.gz for the versions of fvwm in question: -r--r--r-- 1 root root 324178 Okt 29 1994 ftp.funet.fi/util/X11/contrib/fvwm-1.24n.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 329170 Mai 7 1996 ftp.uni-erlangen.de/680x0/X11R6.1/fvwm95-2.0.41e.tar.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 805 Apr 18 1996 sunsite.unc.edu-REST/X11/window-managers/fvwm-2.0.42.lsm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 7 1996 sunsite.unc.edu-REST/X11/window-managers/fvwm-2.0.42.tar.gz-is-in-pkg-fvwm_s -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 581985 Jun 4 1996 suse/zq1/fvwm_s.tgz None of them have FvwmPrompt in it, not these versions and not the other on the disks. Looks like no version < 2.0.42 ever made it to the mirrors. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...
