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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XReadBitmapFile
Message-ID: <8908030101.AA22208@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 89 01:01:19 GMT
References: <8908021859.AA08370@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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> What's wrong with the following (with the analogous change made to
> lib/X/XRdBitF.c):
>
> [treat file named - as stdin]

Two things, which depend upon one's particular style:

    o  some folks don't like overloading "-" like that at that level of
       abstraction.

    o  it doesn't let you specify the stream to use.


But the main reason is that I had already written the other code.  :-)


							Jim