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From: taylort@decus.com.au (Trevor Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Are _Xxxxx routines supposed to be visible?
Message-ID: <8769.27caecba@decus.com.au>
Date: 26 Feb 91 13:18:17 GMT
Organization: DECUS, South Pacific Chapter
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I'm currently porting the MIT R4 clients to VMS and I have found
that xpr and xwud call a routine _XInitImageFuncPtrs() so that
they can manipulate an image structure using the Xlib routines
without actually creating an image. 

The problem is that VMS uses shared libraries, and very few of
the _Xxxxx routines are visible. Now to the question:
Are these "internal" routines supposed to be available to the
applications programmer?

Would anyone in the Consortium care to answer? If they are
part of the definition (which I doubt) then should DEC be
making them accessible?

Failing that, should this routine have an external interface
in R5? It's not very polite for the MIT code to "cheat" :-)

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