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From: jef@HELIOS.EE.LBL.GOV (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Programs to read compressed bitmaps (for rootwindow)
Message-ID: <8903082008.AA12548@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 8 Mar 89 20:08:09 GMT
References: <1360@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
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In the referenced message, sivagnan@handel.ColoState.EDU (S. Vasanthan) wrote:
}Are there programs out there which will read a compressed (compress (1))
}bitmaps directly from disk?

It would be sufficient to make xsetroot optionally read from stdin.  This
should be trivial.
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Jef

            Jef Poskanzer   jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov   ...well!pokey