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Revision and Printing History
| August 1988: | First Printing |
| November 1988: | Second Printing. Minor revisions. |
| May 1989: | Third Printing. Release 3 updates added. Minor revisions. |
Small Print
This document is based in part on Xlib–C Language X Interface, by Jim Gettys, Ron Newman, and Robert Scheifler, and the X Window System Protocol, Version 11, by Robert Scheifler and Ron Newman, both of which are copyright © 1985, 1986, 1987 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts. In addition, we've included some material provided in Oliver Jones' Xlib Tutorial Overheads, which was distributed at the MIT X Conference in January 1988, and which is copyright © 1987 Apollo Computer, Inc. Appendix F is based on the Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual by David Rosenthal, which is copyright © 1988 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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