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one of the coolest apps for afterstep is the biff asmail,
you find yourself sending mail to yourself just to see the
amazing spinning-e appear in your Wharf and anyone passing your
workstation inevitibly says:
"hey, it's just like that movie... Disclosure."
the default animation, however, eats up about 100 colour cells, far
to many for an 8bit display running other apps such as netscape.
this is the default "e" animation which has been hacked up so that it
only eats about 30 cells.
INSTALLATION
just copy the xpm files onto your disk and call them from
your .asmailrc file. easy.
the default xpms also eat up cells, whether you see them or not.
you may want to copy the files *_s.xpm into pixmaps/std/ of
the asmail directory and use
make clean; make
to recomplie the binary.
MODIFICATION
you may want to colour reduce other anims:
the pixmaps were colour reduced using ImageMagik, like so:
mogrify -colors 8 -dither *.xpm
(the ' -colors 8 ' means each .xpm is limited to a palette of 8)
they were then edited to include a transparent pixel (as
asmail needs one - d'oh). the c-function names need to be changed in
the *_s.xpm files.
have fun...
Lee Maguire
lee@wetware.demon.co.uk
http://www.wetware.demon.co.uk
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for information about asmail:
http://www.rby.hk-r.se/~pt95pli/asmail.html
for information about ImageMagik:
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html
(cheers to Tenchi for the mogrify tipoff)
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