On 02-Aug-00 at 20:34, Carlos A M dos Santos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Carlos A M dos Santos wrote:
> 
> > Testing for the existence of XtToolkitThreadInitialize is not enough. The
> > result must be tested too, since even in non thread-aware implementations
> > the function exists, though it ever returns False.
> 
> BTW, testing for _Xt* is not correct, because such internal functions are
> not part of the Xt specification. Play the game by the rules or don't
> play.

Of course if we all played strictly by the rules LessTif wouldn't have been
started in the first place. We would have all just forked out our 10 grand and
got the source license for Motif. In many, many cases, it has been, find out
how it works first, find out how it works by the rules later......


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