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From: valdis@alchemy.mcs.clarkson.edu (& Kletnieks)
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Subject: Re: Problems with 'xrdb' & 'xdm'?
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Date: 28 Nov 88 18:10:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: valdis@alchemy.mcs.clarkson.edu's message of 23 Nov 88 18:52:17 GMT

OK, I 'rtfm'ed for the stupid error of mine concerning '-name' on an xterm,
I changed it to '-n' and it works fine.

In 'xrdb -query' only outputting one line, I just got the following:

Subject: Re: Problems with 'xrdb' & 'xdm'? 
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 88 09:20:44 PST
From: Dave Lemke 

  From:  sun.soe.clarkson.edu!valdis@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu  (& Kletnieks)
  Date:  23 Nov 88 18:52:17 GMT

> Anybody have any flames/suggestions/hints for the following? (I'll even
> settle for an 'rtfm' if you point which one I should have read...)

> Scenario:

> Sun 3/260, hi-res monochrome screen, running SunOS 4.0, and
> X11R3 (patches 1-2 and Purdue speedups).

> 1) 'xrdb -query' only outputs ONE line.  While debugging the following
> problems, I was forced to do: 'xrdb -edit xyzz;cat xyzzy;rm xyzzy' to
> see what I had set.

bug in 4.0 fputs().  it only spits out text up to a '\n' if the output
buffer is fresh.  supossedly this is fixed in 4.0.1.  my workaround
was to change the 'fputs' in xrdb to use 'puts'.

Dave Lemke				ARPA: lemke@sun.com
Window Systems Group			UUCP: ucbvax!sun!lemke
Sun Microsystems, Inc.