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- Crabs
- A Live Desktop For Windows
- Paolo Cignoni
-
- 28/4/1992
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-
- Description
- Running Crabs found a shellfish colony on your desktop window. These
- little crabs eat the background and dread the cursor. I saw a similar
- program the first time on a DMD 5620 Teletype terminal in an article on
- Scientific American in 1985. The crabs can walk inoffensively on the
- Desktop Window behind other window or eat any window they meet. You have
- control over crabs with the cursor because crabs dread cursor.
- The program is customizable using the CRABS.INI file.
-
- How to install
- To install Crabs you must copy it and put the CRABS.INI file in your
- Windows directory. CRABS.INI contains only the section [crabs]; you can
- modify the following parameters:
-
- [crabs]
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- desktop = boolean TRUE crabs are on the desktop and walk UNDER
- other windows, eating only the background;
-
- FALSE crabs are on the desktop and walk OVER
- any window eating them;
-
- timer = nnn refresh period, smaller the number,
- faster the crabs;
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- crabnumber = nnn number of crabs on the screen (max 40)
-
- probchangedir = nn probability (0..100) for a crab to change
- his walk direction,
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- Crabs is FreeWare, you can copy, distribute and use it freely. The only
- limitation is to distribute the whole package without modifing it.
- If you like this program, or if you have suggestions send me an e-mail
- at the following internet address:
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- cignoni@miles.cnuce.cnr.it
-
- Next versions of this program will be done if i receive a little
- encouragement from users.
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-
- Paolo Cignoni
- Via Amendola 39
- 57025 Piombino (LI)
- ITALY
-