richb@sunaus.oz (Rich Burridge) (03/15/91)
This message is to announce the availability of patch #13 for faces v1.4.
Faces is a program for monitoring a list visually. Typically this is a list
of incoming mail messages, jobs in the print queue or users on a system.
Faces has the ability to read compressed faces images embedded in your
mail headers, uncompressing them and displaying them on-the-fly. There are
graphical interfaces for X11, XView, SunView and NeWS.
The changes included in patch #13 are listed below. Rather than post patch
#13 here, I'm inviting you to get it from the automatic mail archive server.
Send a message to rb-archive-server@Aus.Sun.COM containing the line:
send faces patch13
Previous patches can be retrieved in a similar way. A fully patched faces
v1.4.13 can also be retrieved from the same archive server by sending seven
messages containing:
send faces partn
where n = 1-7. Note that these seven lines can be in one messages, but the
archive server processes smaller requests faster.
Each part is a uuencoded compressed shar file.
Each patch is a uuencoded compressed set of diffs, with the possible
inclusion of new files in shar format.
If the mail is likely to go back through any sites that impose a size limit,
then I suggest you generate seven separate mail messages.
You can also include a path line in these requests to indicate the mail
path that the archive server should use to send the files to you. Such a
path line could be:
path uunet.uu.net!hostname!user
Note that this is uunet.uu.net and not just uunet. Sun.COM doesn't recognise
just uunet.
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The other part of this message is to announce that I'm about to start a
mailing list for faces. Send me mail if you'd like to be added to this
list.
The main intentions of this list are:
- to generate new patches for the faces program (bug fixes, enhancements
etc).
- to get feedback from people on porting and maintaining faces on various
platforms.
- to get other people interested in developing and enhancing the faces
program. The TODO file is quite large, and I simply need help if all the
ideas are to be realised.
- to generate discussion of what new features should be added, and how this
should be done.
I'll collect names for about a week, then send out an introduction and a
status message.
Rich Burridge, DOMAIN: richb@Aus.Sun.COM
Sun Microsystems. ACSNET: richb@sunaus.sun.oz
PHONE: +61 2 413 2666 UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!sunaus.oz!richb
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Changes made in patch #13:
- From James Ashton <jaa@cs.su.oz.au>
From Mark Shand <shand@prl.dec.com>
Fixed a corruption problem with the [un]compface routines.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
Changed some #ifndef mips to #if !defined(mips) || defined(ultrix)
because a DECstation defines mips as its processor type.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
Added a new option to set the X11 font name, -fn. Also, added
support internally to handle fonts other than the standard 6x12
font by removing inline constants and using font parameters instead.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu> Added support for the standard X11 resources that correspond to the
command line options. I could have gone further with this, but it
gets tiring after a while. I wouldn't want to do much more without
changing it into a toolkit program, but that's just too much work!
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
Added the ability to specify the 4 .facesrc parameters via the X11
resource file -- X11 users are used to everything being in the X11
resources, so this gives them what they expect.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
Allow X11 users to make an X11 bitmap rather than a Sun icon for
the background pixmap.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
Added an XFlush() to the bell code, to make the beeps intelligible,
and changed an XSync() to an XFlush() -- the former caused the
window to hang until an event occured -- probably a buffering
problem.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
Removed some stuff for displaying the username/timestamp text for
X11. It made the display look really bad for a color monitor.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
Updated the man page to mention all of the X options and resources.
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
If the "X-Face: " is the last header line, it doesn't get displayed,
because the final processing never gets done to set "x_face".
- From Dave Cohrs <dave@cs.wisc.edu>
In the X11 event processing, KeyPress gets sent for real key presses
(e.g 'q') and for other presses, like <Shift>. The latter doesn't
clear out the lookup string, so you need to do so manually.
Otherwise, if you type <DEL> to clear the window, you can press
<Shift> or <Control> or any such key accidentally later on, and it
clears the window.
- From Mark Shand <shand@prl.dec.com>
Changes to fgetheader function which returns a folded header line
(in the RFC822 sense), and associated to the "line" variable which
must now accomodate arbitrarily long input lines. Also deal with
space between the header-field and the :
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