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- From: stevens@scubed.com (Jeff Stevens)
- Subject: Disappearing command line arguments
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.035954.16698@scubed.com>
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- Organization: S-CUBED, A Division of Maxwell Labs; San Diego CA
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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:59:54 GMT
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- XtInitialize (and variants) removes all Xt command line arguments
- from the command line list argv and reduces argc accordingly. However,
- it also removes a "-d" flag, and sometimes removes a "-t" flag. "-d"
- appears to be equivalent to "-display". These are not documented toolkit
- options, and I can't find any reference to them in the X source code.
-
- Is this a bug or a feature? Where and why are these arguments removed?
- Are there any other undocumented flags extracted by the X initialization
- routines? Why is "-t" removed sometimes and sometimes not? This is causing
- problems, since we use "-t" for another purpose.
-
- Sun Sparc OS 4.1.2, X11R5 patch level 16.
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- Jeff Stevens stevens@s3mars.scubed.com, stevens@seismo.css.gov
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