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From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: "bad screen number"
Date: 9 Feb 1997 19:44:38 -0600
Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
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In article <5dg1ta$an1@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, I pleaded:
>I can't get Wish to go.
>
>The proximate symptom is an "application-specific initialization
>failed: bad screen number '0'" diagnostic. This amounts to a
.
.
.
>running 2.1.6-RELEASE of FreeBSD. It looks most like some kind
>of incompatibility between the Xlib.h and the -lX11 for the def-
>inition of Display, but I know of no changes in those, and
>certainly none that should affect my sources. Binaries (xterm,
.
.
.
Yup. I was compiling with X11R4 (I think), and linking
with X11R6. End of crisis. I make a point of posting
this, though, because there are a couple of aspects to
my little drama that I think are of general interest.
More on those, in follow-ups of narrowed distribution.
--
Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html
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