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GRIPE about XRN 6.13

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sat Jan 19 23:48:39 1991

Date: Sat, 19 Jan 91 23:48:15 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: cedar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: cedar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU's message of Sat, 5 Jan 91 15:18:13 -0500 <9101052018.AA07572@test-rt.MIT.EDU>

   From: cedar@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
   Date: Sat, 5 Jan 91 15:18:13 -0500

   As per your advice, my .Xresources file now looks like this:

   xrn*Composition.geometry = 661+0+0
   xrn*Composition.pane.text.wrap = never
   xrn*Composition.pane.text.autoFill = true
   xrn*breakLength = 70

   However, people are still telling me to put in manual carriage
   returns in my postings.  Is this the result of a temporary bug you
   had, or are all my postings still unreadable by people with ascii
   terminals?

This was not my advice.  The separator between the resource name and
its value in .Xresources is ":", not "=".  Your .Xresources should
contain:

   xrn*Composition.geometry: 661+0+0
   xrn*Composition.pane.text.wrap: never
   xrn*Composition.pane.text.autoFill: true
   xrn*breakLength: 70

  --> Jonathan Kamens
      Project Athena Watchmaker and User Consultant
      Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) member
      jik@Athena.MIT.EDU

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