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xmailbox Version 2.2 is available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat May 20 00:39:01 1995
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 07:53:24 -0500
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@rose.uthscsa.edu>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: wcheung@mach1.ee.ubc.ca (William K.W. Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: xmailbox Version 2.2 is available
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Keywords: mail, mailbox, XPM, animation, sound, X11
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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ANNOUNCEMENT - xmailbox Version 2.2
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The xmailbox program started out as an enhanced xbiff. However, the
latest version includes support for sound effects and animation. The
default functionality employs two images for the "mail in mailbox" and
"no mail" states, in the form of XPM type 3 files. The default images
are, respectively, that of an empty mailbox with its flag down, and
that of an open mailbox, with its flag up and a letter visible inside.
Animation can be enabled for playing up to 8 XPM files in repeated
sequence.
The application can also, optionally, play a sound through a
workstation's audio device, instead of generating the default beep sound,
whenever new mail arrives. The following sound packages/drivers are
supported:
1) NCD audio server
2) Rplay sound package
3) Linux's Sun-compatible audio driver (/dev/audio)
4) Standard SUN audio driver (/dev/audio)
By default, pressing any mouse button in the image forces xmailbox to
remember the current size of the mail file as being the "empty" size and
to change its image accordingly. In addition to this, the user can
optionally have xmailbox invoke his/her favourite mail retrieving program.
This program is nothing more than a wrapper around the Mailbox widget
included with the program's source distribution. Mailbox was derived by
the Mailbox widget included with the Athena Widget Set. The first version
of Mailbox was a hack based on the X11R5 Mailbox widget written by
Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium, and Ralph Swick, DEC/MIT Project Athena. The
xmailbox source is very similar to xbiff.
If you are planning to use the NCD Audio server or the rplay sound package,
you can obtain these packages from ftp.x.org in /contrib/netaudio and
/contrib/rplay respectively. These packages provide network sound support.
This program has been tested on Sun Sparc 2 & IPX under SunOS 4.1.3,
HP 9000/710 under HP-UX 9.01, and a 486 DX2-66 PC equipped with a
Soundblaster 16 under Linux 1.2.2.
NOTE: You'll need xpm-3.4 or higher in order to compile xmailbox.
---- As of this writing, the latest version of xpm is 3.4; it can be
obtained from ftp.x.org (in directory contrib, file xpm-3.4.tar.gz).
Enjoy!
Dimitrios P. Bouras (dimitri@ee.ubc.ca) and
William Cheung (wcheung@ee.ubc.ca)
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THE AUTHORS (Dimitrios P. Bouras and William K. W. Cheung) MAKE NO
REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE FOR ANY PURPOSE.
IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY.
Xbiff IS COPYRIGHT 1988, X CONSORTIUM
SEE X(1) FOR A FULL STATEMENT OF RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS.
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The following is xmailbox's LSM entry:
Begin3
Title: xmailbox
Version: 2.2
Entered-date: Wed May 17 21:59:56 PDT 1995
Description: The main purpose of xmailbox is to get a user's
attention when new mail arrives. Xmailbox tries to
achieve this by using sound effects, color icons, and/or
icon animation. For sound effects, xmailbox currently
supports the NCD audio server, the Rplay audio server,
Linux's Sun-compatible audio device, and Sun's audio
device. For color icons, xmailbox uses XPM type 3 files.
For animation, you can configure xmailbox to play up to
8 XPM files in repeated sequence.
Keywords: mail, mailbox, XPM, animation, sound
Author: dimitri@ee.ubc.ca (Dimitrios P. Bouras)
wcheung@ee.ubc.ca (William K. W. Cheung)
Maintained-by: wcheung@ee.ubc.ca (William K. W. Cheung)
dimitri@ee.ubc.ca (Dimitrios P. Bouras)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Mail
31K xmailbox-2.2-bin.tgz
43K xmailbox-2.2-src.tgz
Alternate-site:
Original-site: ftp.x.org /contrib/applications
43K xmailbox-2.2.tar.gz
Platform:
Copying-policy:
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William K. W. Cheung | Research Engineer
Electrical Engineering, Communications Lab. | E-Mail: wcheung@ee.ubc.ca
The University of British Columbia | Phone: (604)-822-5084
Vancouver, B.C., CANADA V6T 1Z4 | Fax: (604)-322-9675
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