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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: x11r4 xinit bug?
Message-ID: <9001131540.AA08487@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 13 Jan 90 15:40:49 GMT
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	This (among other things) bit us also -- our user community
	has a strong interest in upward compatibility and believes
	whatever works now, as in X11R3, should continue to work.

Recheck your R3 xinit man page, you will find that it says exactly the
same thing as the R4 man page about program names.  We had bug reports
from people that xinit didn't behave as the man page stated; we fixed
the code to match the man page.  It is a traditional problem that a coding
bug turns into a feature exploited by some segment of the user community.
If your community demands it, you can certainly change the implementation
of xinit to meet those demands.