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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: resources in toolkit
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Date: 13 May 88 19:18:32 GMT
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Dave Cohrs' analysis is correct.  The old '-n' option to xterm should
probably have been dropped to avoid the confusion with '-name'.

Also, the man page for all applications should state their application
class; in xterm's case, it is "XTerm".

As to having standard command line options for all resources used by
TopLevelShell widgets, I note only that some people believe long
command lines to be evil incarnate.  The '-xrm' option is intended to
provide the all-purpose hacker's porthole, if you insist. :-)

-Ralph