naming of x programs

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From: toddb
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1987 19:15

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One question to be answered now is: What are we going to name X11
clients?  Are we going to continue to name them xfoo, xblah and
xkludge, or do we give more of them natural names, without an x prefix,
like "bitmap" and "keycomp".  Certainly some would have to stay the
same like "xset" (conflict with shell "set"), "xmore" (conflict with
"more").  As an example, MIT has the simple program "xrefresh", which
DEC has chosen to call "refresh".  Any preferences now?  Before its too
late.

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