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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xatom.h
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Date: 8 Mar 89 12:50:42 GMT
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    I can't figure out what it is generated from.

From server/dix/buildatoms.

    should I try to
    generate it from whatever Xatom.h is generated from, or should I just
    generate it from Xatom.h directly?

Whatever works for you.

    Will the format of Xatom.h remain #define atom ((Atom) number)?

No particular guarantees, but I see no reason for it to change.

    Will all the
    predefined atoms begin with XA_ and be all upper-case?

If you think about it hard enough, adding new predefined atoms would be
an incompatible change to the protocol.  Perhaps that answers your question.

    Though I maintain that the "right"
    thing would be for the server to recognize the predefined atoms when I
    try to intern them

It will.