ron@wayback.unm.EDU@hi.unm.EDU (Ron E. Neher-S) (03/25/88)
VERSION: X11 release 2 SYNOPSIS: Documentation for X(1) and xrdb(1) and .Xdefaults format. (From a general users point of view) DESCRIPTION: The documentation for X(1) under X10 gave an example .Xdefaults file, but X(1) under X11 does not. X(1) under X11 tells of the valid format for this file, but I think that there should be some reference to the difference between X10 format and X11's format. I don't think that a general user is willing (even if they can get their hands on the Xlib -- C Language Interface doc) to lookup the Xlib C-library "Resource Manager Matching Rules" (by the way this is in section 10.11.1) to find out how they need to define their .Xdefaults. Also, the start of a comment under X10 was a "#" and under X11 it is a "!". FIX: I don't know the best way of solving this problem, but maybe you can create a man page on it and reference it from X(1) and xrdb(1). also, xrdb(1) should talk about the format of the file (how "." and "*" and "!" ":" work). And make some reference to how X10 use to do things (i.e. "." and "#" ":") ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron E. Neher University of New Mexico Dept. of Electircal & Computer Engineering Albuquerque, NM 87131 (505) 277-0809(office)/0801(lab) NET-ADDRESS: ron@houdini.unm.edu