Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!dheller From: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Problem on xrdb -query (and some misc comments) Summary: Plus some poor advertising... Message-ID: <9899@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 15 Feb 89 05:41:18 GMT References: <8902150128.AA29482@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 27 In article <8902150128.AA29482@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Z.Wang@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Zheng Wang, Ext: 3701) writes: >I have a problem with xrdb -query with X11R3. "xrdb -query" is >supposed to print the resource database file. But "xrdb -query" >on our system only produces the first line of the database file. Lemme guess- you're running sunOS 4.0? If so, there is a bug with fputs where it plugs a null after the first newline. xrdb -query outputs everything in one string and fputs it out. since sunOS-4.0 has this bug, you are left with a one-line output. My misc comment is in response to someone's request that responses to questions be mailed to the original poster if possible. I really would appreciate the opposite -- many questions are frequently asked and I'm very interested in the responses and whatever conversation tangents from there. for example, I still don't know how to convert my sun fonts into fonts suitable for R3. I figured out how to do it in R2, but the same thing doesn't work in R3. A few people asked this yet there was no posted response. I don't mind hitting 'n' on articles that I'm not interested in. And now for the cheap advertising... on expo.lcs.mit.edu, the contrib directory has a new dclock.tar.Z -- this one works under both R2 and R3 and contains a new option for 24/hr time format (thanx to a suggestion by your buddy and mine, Jordan Hubbard). Dan Heller