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From: alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer)
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Subject: maintaining keyed data in server?
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Date: 18 Oct 90 20:52:41 GMT
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I seem to recall that there's some way of associating arbitrary data with a
key in an X server so that multiple client processes can get the value of
some global variable.  Is this true?  The only way I can find to do this at
the moment is perhaps to use (in XView) the resources database.  Does anyone
have a general-purpose way for multiple unrelated clients (from different
machines) to get at the same data?
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