mikew@wyse.wyse.com (Mike Wexler) (08/26/88)
Submitted-by: mikew@wyse.com (Mike Wexler) Posting-number: Volume 1, Info 4 Archive-name: guidelines.1 To make life easier for both me and the users of the comp.sources.x newsgroup, I will require that the following be included in postings. 1. shell commands to extract all the files - This means the postings should be in shar format. 2. source code - Fonts in bdf format are ok. 3. a README file - This should be a brief description of what this program does. 4. a Makefile 5. a man page 6. a patchlevel.h -- This keeps track of how many official patches have been applied. When you send out a modification it should be in context diff format and it should update the patchlevel.h file. If any of the above are not included, I will tell the poster and wait until they are included before I post the program. The following things should be included, but are not required yet. 1. A list of authors and their copying policy. 2. #include <X11/Xos.h> instead of things like types.h, strings.h and time.h 3. use -display displayname and -geometry geomspec instead of old style. 4. filenames that are 12 or fewer characters long 5. an Imakefile -- Mike Wexler(wyse!mikew) Phone: (408)433-1000 x1330