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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is the resource manager weird, or is it just me?
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Date: 16 Jun 89 12:15:07 GMT
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     Date:  15 Jun 89 23:29:08 GMT
     From:  dftsrv!nssdcs!setzer@AMES.ARC.NASA.GOV  (William Setzer (IDM))

     The problem is, XrmDatabase is an opaque data type.  Thus, I _can't_
     initialize it (to NULL).
      
XrmDatabase is semi-opaque.  It is specified as a pointer to an
undefined structure.  It is therefore legal to assign NULL to
a variable of this type.