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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: application resource file location
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:14:29 GMT
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In article <1990Sep6.043946.21061@Solbourne.COM> garya@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Gary Aitken) writes:
>
>The "standard" place for an application's default resources
>is 
>	/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults

Right so far.

>The "standard" place for all other files related to an
>application is
>	/usr/lib/X11/<application_name>

Nope, it's /usr/lib/X11/<type-of-file>

For example, /usr/lib/X11/uil, /usr/lib/X11/help, /usr/lib/X11/bitmaps...

And within these directories, it's not application-name, it's
application-class.  An important distinction.

	-paul asente

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