/usr/bin/xterm

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> All of the old school X guys (Jim Gettys, Keith Packard, I think Kaleb
> Keithley, etc.) all say that /usr/X11R6 is an abomination and the sooner
> it goes away the better.

It was a fix for the cases where people were running X11R5 and X11R6
clients.  The underlying issue doesn't really go away, but we revisit
it from time to time.

> You can now go back to your old school Unix guy and tell him he needs to
> get with the times on what people in the X Window System community are
> advocating.  ;)

hmm - what's that quote from Toynbee?

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