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From: wohler@coco0.istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: writing your .Xdefaults file
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Date: 1 Jun 88 04:01:27 GMT
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  after reading X(1), and the appropriate sections in the Xlib and
  Toolkit documentation, i am still not clear on the subtleties of the
  resource manager and your .Xdefaults file.

  i guess my big questions is: what is the difference between '*' and '.'?

  for example, the X(1) documentation implies that i can read:
  
	*BoldFont:		helvetica-bold14

  as "make all applications helvb14" so the '*' seems to serve as a
  wildcard.  but, it my xterm and uwm don't use it.

  also, xterm only recognizes xterm*font but not xterm.font.  why not?
  other applications recognize both forms (eg. awm).

  i think it is the apparent inconsistencies that is confusing me.
  thus, what is the preferred usage?

	name.subclass.subclass	or
	name*subclass.subclass	or
	name*subclass*subclass


						--bw