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From: arne@rrzbu.hanse.de (Arne Ludwig)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm bug in parsing -S option
Message-ID: <1625@rrzbu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 90 22:02:07 GMT
References: <1990Aug22.210424.18890@sq.sq.com>
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lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
>Here is a (totally unofficial and not tested) patch.  I don't seem to
>be able to recompile xterm without remaking all of the libraries, or
>spending hours hacking the makefile to use -lX11 instead of ../../lib/X/X11
>and so on, sorry.

Use xmkmf. Or alternatively imake -DUseInstalled -I<local-config>

>In any case it seems better to test the return value of sscanf() in the
>following code.

This is a bad idea. Berkeley sscanf returned "char *" instead of "int",
causing your patch to fail on many systems.
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