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- This is an adaptation of the quite clever program by Jef Poskanzer and
- Craig Leres, xphoon. Most of the code is theirs. All the windowing
- code was very nicely separate from the rest of the program, so all I
- had to do was replace their window code with code to work for the NeXT.
-
- Their code has a bitmap compiled into the program, then it hacks the
- bitmap to do the shading. Then we get to the window specific stuff.
- What my code does is take the hacked moon bitmap, and output it to a file
- in xbitmap format. Then it runs the xbm through three programs from
- the pbmplus package, and finally run the "background" program on the
- file. Background is by C.D.lane (lane@sumex-aim.stanford.edu) and
- Gilles Detillieux (gilles@scrc.UManitoba.CA). It uses "pft" to set the
- NeXT background window.
-
- This was a quick slap together of a weekend. No guarantees that all
- the options work. It takes a lot longer to run than xphoon, since it
- uses all those other programs.
-
- The pbm and background programs are in the "programs" directory, for
- those who don't have them. These programs were compiled on OS 2.0.
-
- COMPILATION
-
- Type "make" to make. Type "make install" to install. The pbm programs
- and background program aren't included in the install process, in case they
- would overwrite your own copies. I've only compiled this under 2.0, but
- there isn't anything that should be OS specific, it should work fine
- under 1.0.
-
- TODO
- 1. It would be best if the output were in eps rather than xbitmap format.
- Then the pbm programs could be dispensed with. Trouble is, I didn't have
- the right postscript docs, so I don't know what eps format looks like.
-
- 2. The program should not call the "background" program. Instead, it
- should incorporate the required code, cat the eps onto the back of it,
- and call "pft" with a "system" call, on the resultant file.
-