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Re: /usr/bin/xterm

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:13:16 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/xterm
References: <20040402080708.88F7234C4F@nevin.research.canon.com.au><406D8186.2070703@msu.edu>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> All of the old school X guys (Jim Gettys, Keith Packard, I think Kaleb
> Keithley, etc.) all say that /usr/X11R6 is an abomination and the sooner
> it goes away the better.

It was a fix for the cases where people were running X11R5 and X11R6
clients.  The underlying issue doesn't really go away, but we revisit
it from time to time.

> You can now go back to your old school Unix guy and tell him he needs to
> get with the times on what people in the X Window System community are
> advocating.  ;)

hmm - what's that quote from Toynbee?

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

References:
- /usr/bin/xterm (was: Re: Various starting X problems)
  - From: luke . kendall
- Re: /usr/bin/xterm
  - From: Harold L Hunt II

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