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From: evans@decvaxdec.com (Marc Evans Ultrix Q/A)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: decwindows: XResourceManagerString()?
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Date: 10 Jul 90 11:27:23 GMT
References: <9007070758.AA03094@shamash.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> <1990Jul9.180010.16061@wrl.dec.com>
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In article <1990Jul9.180010.16061@wrl.dec.com>, price@wsl.dec.com (Chuck
Price) writes:
|> In article <9007070758.AA03094@shamash.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>,
|> mouse@SHAMASH.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
|> |> 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
|> |> 
|> |>... 
|> |> 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.
|> |> 
|> |>...
|> I am running UWS v2.2 on a DECstation. XResourceManagerString() is defined
|> in /usr/include/X11/Xlib.h, and does exist in libX11.a. I do not have
|> a VS3520 here, so I can't verify what is on that system. Have you contacted
|> MasPar?

As I recall, the FIREFOX (3520/3540) X environment lagged signifcantly behind
that of the rest of the ULTRIX workstation platforms. For example, I believe
that it still doesn't support the DPS extension. Possibly, UWS 2.1 did not
support this function (at least on the FIREFOX)? The 3540 I have access to
is currently running UWS 4.0 and therefore doesn't provide an apples<>apples
comparison...

- Marc

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