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From: phil@BRL.MIL (Phil Dykstra)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  xrdb no longer strips trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <9001112122.aa03001@SPARK.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 90 02:22:15 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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    Stripping trailing whitespace is not part of the normal resource
    mechanisms in Xlib/Xt, and shouldn't be a part of xrdb either.

But invoking cpp is not part of Xlib/Xt either, so xrdb is already
different.  The penalty of your fix is that you can never have comments
on the same line as a string resource, something I was quite fond of.
This may be a likely pitfall for new users as well.  I wish you would
reconsider, but heck, I guess I can live with it.  Thanks.

- Phil