Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:14411 comp.windows.misc:1215 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!ics!david From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: standard for pixmap description Keywords: files, pixmaps, PAX Message-ID: <3407@ics.COM> Date: 19 Oct 89 13:30:56 GMT References: <3381@ics.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 15 In article <3381@ics.COM>, david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) writes: > Several months ago someone posted information on the development of > a standard for writing X pixmaps to files. As I recall, it had been named > PAX but was quickly renamed. > > Does anyone know what has become of this effort? > Does anyone have the address of the people reponsible? Daniel Dardailler of the BULL Centre de Sophia Antipolis has forwarded details of his XPM text-based pixmap-description scheme to me. -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu Some financial models, on the other hand, yield a positive societal value for a pack of cigarettes: smokers ... inflate group life-insurance premiums, but they tend to die before costing society much in pensions or nursing-home care. - SA