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- Path: uunet!wyse!mikew
- From: mikew@wyse.wyse.com (Mike Wexler)
- Newsgroups: comp.sources.x
- Subject: v01INF4: Guidelines for postings to comp.sources.x
- Message-ID: <1664@wyse.wyse.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 88 22:26:11 GMT
- Organization: Wyse Technology, San Jose
- Lines: 29
- Approved: mikew@wyse.com
-
- 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
-