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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
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Subject: Re: Toolkit is not reading my resource file
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Date: 29 May 90 13:47:27 GMT
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    I looked at the source code for the intrinsic and  it was obvious that
    it didn't do anything with XAPPLRESDIR. In its place, it built a
    filename consisting of the home directory, a dot and then the
    class name.

The R3 Intrinsics specified approximately this behaviour: it did not
specify that a dot should be inserted.  The MIT R3 implementation followed
the specification, and I believe the XUI documentation matched R3, but
the XUI implementation inserted the dot.  The XUI implementation is
incorrect.

Note that the R4 Intrinsics have generalized this lookup mechanism.