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From: mouse@SHAMASH.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: decwindows: XResourceManagerString()?
Message-ID: <9007070758.AA03094@shamash.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 7 Jul 90 07:58:27 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Someone tell me what I'm doing wrong...DEC can't have gotten it this
badly wrong.  The system is a MasPar computer, number unknown; the
front-end is a VAX 3520 (I think - it's the dual KA60 machine) running
Ultrix.  It is on this front-end that I have the problem.

System version, obtained from /vmunix with strings and egrep:

	Ultrix-32 V3.1 (Rev. 9) UWS V2.1 System #1: Mon Jun  4 08:46:20 PDT 1990

X display information, obtained with xdpyinfo:

	name of display:    :0.0
	version number:    11.0
	vendor string:    DECWINDOWS DigitalEquipmentCorp.
	vendor release number:    11
	maximum request size:  4096 longwords (16384 bytes)
	motion buffer size:  0
	bitmap unit, bit order, padding:    32, LSBFirst, 32
	image byte order:    LSBFirst
	keycode range:    minimum 86, maximum 251
	default screen number:    0
	number of screens:    1
	
	screen #0:
[much dull and probably irrelevant stuff omitted]

Problem: when trying to build an X client, XResourceManagerString()
doesn't exist.  It doesn't exist in the include files (grep
ResourceManager *.h in /usr/include/X11 turned up nothing) and it
doesn't exist in the -lX11 library (undefined symbol at link time).

For now, I've patched around it by borrowing the call to
XGetWindowProperty from the end of the R4 XOpenDisplay, but that's
highly ugly.  The MIT Xlib doc, even for R3, indicates that
XResourceManagerString() exists, so it seems eminently reasonable to
expect it to be there.

Presumably I've missed something simple.  Any idea what?  All the other
Xlib routines the program uses exist and appear to work just fine.  If
there are more version numbers or other info needed, tell me how to
obtain them and I'll be glad to....

					der Mouse

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