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From: ehrlich@SHIRE.CS.PSU.EDU (Daniel R. Ehrlich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How does one find the X11 minor release number?
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Date: 8 May 89 13:17:56 GMT
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>    It sure would be nice if xrdb would define
>    a symbol like X11R2 or X11R3 based on which version was actually in
>    use.
>
>It sounds pretty hard to decide what you really mean here.

We are running a mix of both X11R2 (mostly on RTs) and X11R3 (mostly
on Suns).  I would like to be able to put something like:

#ifdef	X11R3
#define	big_font	courr18
#define	normal_font	courr14
#define	bold_font	courb14
#else	X11R3
#define	big_font	9x15
#define	normal_font	8x13
#define	bold_font	8x13bold
#endif	X11R3

at the beginning of the .X{default,resources} files so as to not need
the old fonts when we switch completely over the X11R3.  At the moment
this is done in the script we start X with by looking at the type of
machine we are running on.  I.E. if a Sun then X11R3 else X11R2.  This
information is then communicated to xrdb with -DX11R? when the file is
loaded into the resource manager.  I was just looking for a cleaner way
of doing this.

--Dan