On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:57:19 +0200 "h.g. muller" <h.g.mul...@hccnet.nl> wrote:
h> The manual in general does not list with every option whether it is h> persistent or volatile. Ian> It says this: Ian> This section documents the command-line options to XBoard. You can Ian> set these options in two ways: by typing them on the shell command Ian> line you use to start XBoard, or by editing the settings file Ian> (usually ~/.xboardrc) to alter the value of the setting that was Ian> saved there. Ian> which is false for any option of the "volatile" kind (I didn't know Ian> they existed). h> The manual was written at a time when XBoard did not have a settings h> file at all, and all options were volatile. The settings file was h> something that was ported from WinBoard. That makes the manual a bit h> obsolete in some places. I can't work on the code and the manual at h> the same time, and working on the code is already close to 1.5 h> full-time jobs. So the best strategy seemed to be to just give up on h> the manual. XBoard has always had the XResources file, and I have always used that and loved it, until the *%&$ing xboardrc file started overriding it. So no, they weren't volatile at all. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/c66875cda51109f76c6312f4d4743d1e.png Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
