Xresources examples in X.Org man pages

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Considering also that X.org is using an older, less capable version of rman 
>> (as I've noted on this list twice before, without anyone reading the 
>> comment), it doesn't make much difference what sort of scripting is used.
>
> Xorg 6.9 includes rman 3.2, which appears to be the latest on

no - repeating what I pointed out earlier, I made changes to make rman 
work properly for xterm (and some other cases).  rman's author acknowleged 
the changes long ago, but never updated it past "3.2".

> http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/ .  Xorg 7.0 and later don't use
> rman at all, as far as I know.

I did notice that absence (do they generate html, or is that left as an
exercise for the reader?).

> Even so, rman was only used for generating html from nroff, which doesn't
> seem to be at all related to the complaint at hand (corruption of nroff),
> so why would it matter?

It was part of the same overall process (processing the templatized nroff
into documentation).

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