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From: rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DecWindows Under VMS
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Date: 29 Apr 91 00:04:37 GMT
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In newsgroup comp.windows.x, article <1991Apr28.034619.20193@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,\
 andreess@mrlaxd.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes...
>In article <1991Apr28.022858.14554@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU writes:
>>Could anyone tell me where put, and what to name, the resource files under
>>VMS?  That is where would .xdefaults go and name.xdefaults?  Does DecWindows
>>look for the environment variables XENVIRONMENT and HOME?
> 
> The name of the file is SYS$LOGIN:DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT.  (The corresponding
> equivalent to .mwmrc is SYS$LOGIN:DECW$MWMRC.DAT.)  (SYS$LOGIN is the
> VMS logical corresponding to the Unix HOME environment variable.)

     Not quite.  The location is actually ``DECW$USER_DEFAULTS:'', and
the default definition for _that_ is ``SYS$LOGIN:''.  It's possible to
redefine decw$user_defaults to point somewhere else.

		Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu