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From: doyle@b11.ingr.com (Doyle Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xhost & close down mode
Message-ID: <8631@b11.ingr.com>
Date: 31 Aug 90 13:56:35 GMT
References: <8596@b11.ingr.com> <9008282003.AA09091@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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In article <9008282003.AA09091@expire.lcs.mit.edu>, rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
 
>     Now just for academic debate, is there anything wrong with
>     changing the close down mode for xhost?
> 
> Yes, it leads people to a bad idea, and they'll starting putting this
> silly line in every X application that *they* happen to run first.
> ...
> [they should really be using xdm or xinit]

After more thinking, this point seems to be the best argument that I
have heard to date.  I guess that I'll go delete that test version
of xhost now.

Thanks,

Doyle (hoping this posts because big brother is reducing 
	our netnews feeds to only 'proper' news groups) Davidson
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