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From: lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X Backgrounds -> NeXT Backrounds?
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Date: 5 Aug 90 18:09:25 GMT
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In <2051.26ba9add@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>, dastrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
writes:
>>...
>> Ideally, I'd like to have some analog of the xsetroot command, that
>> would tile the NeXT background with the images, if they don't fill
>> it completely.
>...
> Finally, there is a program called background, which is on the standard
> servers, which will load a TIFF in as the background.  Just put
> background -f fname in your .cshrc.

If that's the 'background' csh script I posted to the cs.orst.edu server, it
will only take EPS files, not TIFF.  It will tile, center and scale though.

- Christopher
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