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From: rahat@Atherton.COM (Rahat Modi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Resource file question
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Date: 10 Nov 89 20:08:42 GMT
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Hi,

I have a question about Resource files.  I am running X11R3 on the Sun and 
DecWindows on VMS.

Is the character to introduce a comment in a resource file a '!' or '#' 
or either?

  Appendix A (Resource File Format) of the Xt document (on the tape)
  which shows the EBNF syntax says that it is a '!'. 

  The xrdb program recognizes the '!' and '#'  as the comment character. If you
  give it a file that has lines begining with '#' cpp complains so you must 
  specify the -nocpp option.

  On VMS only the '!' seems to work. 

  Douglas Young's book (X window systems programming and applications with Xt)
  shows example resource files with '#' characters for comments.

  A brief look at the code in Xlib which builds the resource database, shows 
  that it seems to recognize only '#' as comment lines and will create 
  resource database entries for lines begining with '!'. (correct me if I
  am wrong here).

Is this a bug in the documentation ?
All responses to this will be appreciated.

Thank you.

p.s. You can e-mail responses directly to me.

Rahat Modi
Atherton Technology, 1333 Bordeaux Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94089 (408)734-9822
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