.TH PROPINIT local "13 May 1993"
.SH NAME
.B propinit 
\- initializes X window system for XVISTA 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B propinit
[help]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
.B propinit 
must be run (just once) after the X Window system is started up
in order to define the properties needed by the 
.B tv, box, circle, marks
and 
.B cursor
commands.
.LP
It can be placed in the windows initialization script
(.openwin-init for Openwindows).
.LP
If you forget to run it you may get a message like.
.nf
read_property: XGetWindowProperty returns wrong number of items
.fi