Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!sranha!srava!erik From: erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Please describe your sources Message-ID: <899@sranha.sra.co.jp> Date: 18 Mar 91 09:27:45 GMT References: <668027129.110986@paladin.owego.ny.us> <8310001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> Sender: news@sranha.sra.co.jp Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: srava > You forgot to mention a rather important point: if you move the mouse veeerry > carefully, you won't wake Oneko up (neko = cat in japanese, don't know what > this o- prefix is) A long time ago, someone created xclock (to run in a rectangular X window), and then someone created oclock, when X started to support non-rectangular windows (the SHAPE extension). I think the `neko' program first appeared on the Macintosh, and was then ported to X, and therefore called xneko, but it ran around in a rectangular window. Now it uses the SHAPE extension of course, so maybe that's why they called it oneko. It's also a bit of a pun since the prefix o- can be put in front of many Japanese words to make them "polite" ("honorable", or whatever). - -- Erik M. van der Poel erik@sra.co.jp Software Research Associates, Inc., Tokyo, Japan TEL +81-3-3234-2692