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From: cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters)
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Subject: Re: Where do I find information about ICCCM?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 15:57:30 GMT
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>> It is also reproduced as an appendix in the "X Protocol Reference Manual",
>> ed. Adrian Nye, O'Reilly and Associates (Vol 0 in their X Window System
>> Series), 1990, ISBN 0-937175-50-1.  This appears to be a pretty printed
>> version of the document that is distributed with X11R4.
>> 
>Are you SURE its the same document?  O'Reilly & Assoc. printed (against
>the explicit instructions of the X Consortium) an interim draft of the
>ICCCM in the earlier editions of their books.  There are significant
>differences between the interim draft and the final version that will
>confuse people.

Yes. A footnote states:

	This appendix reprints Inter-Client Communications Manual,
	Version 1.0, MIT X Consortium Standard by David S. H. Rosenthal,
	Sun Microsystems, Inc.

	Copyright (c) 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

	Copyright (c) 1987, 1988, 1989 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

This looks like the copyright on the X11R4 version.  Note that this is
the second edition of the O'Reilly manual, dated May 1990.

		Chris Flatters