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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problem with window placement
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Date: 29 Nov 90 13:29:11 GMT
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    Previously I posted a message about being unable to configure windows with
    dimensions greater than MAXSHORT (on a Sun SPARCstation 1).

It would be ill-advised to depend on such dimensions working in the vast
majority of servers.

    I have since
    discovered that my problem is not in configuring the large parent window but
    placing the children of the large window at X and Y positions greater than
    MAXSHORT.

X/Y positions are defined in the protocol as 16-signed values.  You can't
get positions greater than MAXSHORT.