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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Shell script
Message-ID: <1989Oct22.180500.4228@world.std.com>
Date: 22 Oct 89 18:05:00 GMT
References: <8910220448.AA15654@underprize.think.com>
Reply-To: madd@world.UUCP (jim frost)
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <8910220448.AA15654@underprize.think.com> rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) writes:
|Here's a shell script I wrote to set my screen background to something
|interesting without having to remember all the details about where a
|particular picture lives, what program needs to be run, whether a
|particular file is compressed, or whatnot.  Enjoy.

[YAPP - yet another program plug]

I have written a utility, xloadimage, which does both this and
displays images in a window.  It can handle several image formats,
including some color formats, can convert color images to monochrome,
reduce color image depth, and do other simple image manipulations.

While this utility is still in its youth, it is loosely based on
xbgsun which I wrote quite some time ago (and which had numerous
problems which I have tried to correct).  It appears to be quite
portable and reasonably fast.

Interested parties should email to madd@cs.bu.edu.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com