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From: rbj@DSYS.ICST.NBS.GOV (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xlsfonts does, sort of, xterm doesn't
Message-ID: <8904042225.AA08565@dsys.icst.nbs.gov>
Date: 4 Apr 89 22:25:38 GMT
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Just the other day I wrote:

? I'm running X11R3 + patches 1-9, Sun 3/180, SunOS 3.5 + nameserver kit.

? Awhile back I posted a message about problems with xlsfonts dying...

Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, I need a response. The last time
I asked about this, I got many replies. Have I used up my quota of
stupid questions, or are all the gurus on vacation?

? I remember seeing something about `if the client can't keep up with the
? server, the server may get impatient, decide that the client doesn't
? exist anymore, and clean up its end, thereby breaking the connection'.

? I found that somewhere around 4K (pipe size limit?) was about all I
? could get out of xlsfonts without it dying or being killed.

? Are these problems related?

And, yet another manifestation: when starting up xinit alone with
no initialization files, cat'ing an X Makefile kills the xterm
(and naturally the server) with the message:

		xterm: Invalid argument

I have grepped the entire sources (*.[chlys]) and can't find
who prints out that message and why. Must be somewhere tho.

Is there a way to trace/log all packets to and from the server?

? 	Catman Rshd <rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov>
? 	Author of "The Daemonic Versions"