Problem with version 18.57 reading X resources

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From: Bill Thomason
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1991 20:52

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Just recently I had to recompile emacs without the debug options in
src/ymakefile to help conserve disk space.  My heavy user of emacs just
got back from vacation and discovered that emacs is not working properly.

The main problem is that it is not reading the X resources database.  He is
getting a small window that uses an extremely small font.

The only other change I made to the building process is that I commented out
the line in src/ymakefile that performed the incrementing of the minor
version of emacs so that I wouldn't have the problem of cluttering up a
directory with unnecessary copies of DOC.

In the PROBLEMS file there is mention of emacs not properly using
XGetDefault.  Could this be the problem?  If so then why did this font
problem all of a sudden crop up?  Why was emacs able to use the font
specified in his X resources file and not now?

Thank you,
-bill
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Bill Thomason                           Email: wbt@rex.cs.tulane.edu
Dept. of Computer Science                      thomason@rex.cs.tulane.edu
Tulane University                              wbt@rex.uucp
New Orleans, LA 70118

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