vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) (11/01/88)
In article <5279@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@uther.cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford) writes:
#
# The following changes will make xcolors work for all colors
# currently defined in the RGB database, whether duplicated or not.
# I'm sure other hacks could also be added....
[...]
# *** xcolors.manX.orig Sun Oct 30 15:26:12 1988
# --- xcolors.manX Sun Oct 30 15:25:03 1988
# ***************
# *** 12,20 ****
# .TP RGBFILE
# X11 color names and values.
# .SH BUGS
# - It requires every color to be defined twice or more. (It uses the
# - last definition since that is usually the capitalized name).
# - .br
# Dumps core if the server was started with different dbm databases.
# .SH AUTHOR
# Paul Vixie (vix@ubvax.ub.com)
# --- 12,17 ----
Just so nobody wonders if I can't spell, this version of "xcolors" is not
identical to the one I posted to comp.windows.x in April. In particular,
I did not supply a man page. I also did not submit it to R3/contrib.
I don't mind having the thing distributed, except that its an embarrassing
hack, but that's a chance I took when I posted it (the evil that we do
lives after us, etc). I am somewhat miffed that it was modified without
any documentation of that fact -- "dbm databases" indeed. Can we make it
a policy to at least add to the comments in the headers when we modify
software written by other people?
(R3 looks great, of course. If the only blemish is something _I_ wrote...)
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