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Title:"OSF/Motif" is a trademark
Notice:MOTIF kit note in 7.*
Moderator:GOOEY::GRASS
Created:Mon Aug 07 1989
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5973
Total number of notes:24620

5953.0. "When is French variant of Motif 1.2-4 due out?" by CSC32::M_KETER (Mike Keter, Customer Support Center/CS) Tue Apr 15 1997 13:26

Here is the request from the customer:

I have a french customer who is using DECwindows Motif OpenVMS User
Interface Francais V1.2-3 successfully.  He would like to upgrade his
DECwindows Motif to V1.2-4 but noted that there is no equivalent French
version to this product on the January 97 Consolidated Software CD.

We would simply like to know if and when V1.2-4 of the french interface
will be released.  If the answer is negative, could he run his V1.2-3
french interface with the newer V1.2-4 DECwindows Motif?

Mike
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5953.1GRIM::MESSENGERBob MessengerTue Apr 15 1997 16:098
There are no plans to release a French language variant for DECwindows
Motif V1.2-4.  The only language variants that have been produced for
V1.2-4 are Japanese and Hebrew.

Installing the V1.2-3 French language variant on top of V1.2-4 is
unsupported, and I don't think it will work.

				-- Bob
5953.2Is this the end of the road?KAOFS::P_CHAPLINSKYWed Apr 16 1997 11:4115
    Bob,
    
    	I need to understand your answer clearly... are you saying there
    is currently no plans to release a French language variant or that
    this particular variant has reached the end of it's life?
    
    	The customer, based on the Software Rollouts of Mar-97, can run
    V1.2-3C on OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2 to V7.1 and V1.2-3B of DECwindows...
    francais on OpenVMS Alpha V6.2 to V7.1.  However, he should not
    install DECwindows Motif V1.2-4 based on you answer.
    
    Thanks for your help,
    
    Patricia Chaplinsky
    OpenVMS Support Team
5953.3GRIM::MESSENGERBob MessengerWed Apr 16 1997 12:259
My understanding is that there won't be any new versions of the French
language variant after V1.2-3, although Digital might release new patch
kits for it to allow it to be run on future versions of OpenVMS.  This is
what happened with V1.2-3B and V1.2-3C.

If your customer has concerns about this, you should contact the
DECwindows product manager, Vittorio STAR::Mezzano.

				-- Bob