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From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU (Richard Stallman)
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Subject: Emacs failing to work with xrdb
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Date: 2 Feb 91 18:21:05 GMT
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If Emacs fails to understand your .Xdefaults, 
try getting 18.57 and compiling with XBACKWARDS defined.
This compensates for a bug in XGetDefault.
(The actual definition of that function does not accord with what it says
in the header file and the documentation.)