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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: I can't get XGetDefault to work
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Date: 26 Sep 90 13:57:57 GMT
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    sprintf(appstring, "%s.geometry", "test");
    geostr = XGetDefault(surface->display, "XYZ", appstring);

The R4 XGetDefault only accepts a singleton name in the third argument,
not a compound name.  This matches the intention of the specification.
The R3 version worked with a compound name, although it shouldn't have.
Many have flamed about this, you probably will too. :-)  I suppose you
can either "fix" XGetDefault to work the way you want it to, or recode
to use real Xrm interfaces instead of this X10 pseudo-compatibility
interface.