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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  xrdb
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.160630@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 23:06:30 GMT
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In article <7150@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
|> Has anybody ever run an application with *so* many resources (perhaps
|> based on a "you can configure the shape, text, and color of every single
|> button" toolkit), and with those resources all set, so that when they
|> try to set said property, it's so big that their X terminal explodes (or
|> just runs out of memory :-))?

I doubt that many Xnerds have more than a few 10KB in their
.Xdefaults.  If someone starts getting into memory trouble (i.e., many
100KB), they could put the resources into app-defaults files that are
only read in when applications start up.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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