Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tank!ncar!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!valdis From: valdis@alchemy.mcs.clarkson.edu (& Kletnieks) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Problems with 'xrdb' & 'xdm'? Message-ID:Date: 28 Nov 88 18:10:29 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 31 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.