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xearth version 1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Oct 1 05:04:48 1995
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 18:36:41 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: tuna@kanchenjunga.lcs.mit.edu (Kirk 'UhOh' Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: xearth version 1.0
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology-ology-O
Reply-To: Kirk Johnson <tuna@hing.lcs.mit.edu>
Summary: displays a shaded image of the Earth in the root window
Keywords: fun, fun, donuts, and fun
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.x
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Announcing xearth version 1.0. From the README file:
Xearth sets the X root window to an image of the Earth, as seen from
your favorite vantage point in space, correctly shaded for the
current position of the Sun. By default, xearth updates the
displayed image every five minutes; the time between updates can be
changed using either X resources or a command line option. Xearth
can also render directly into PPM and GIF files instead of drawing
in the root window; see the man page for details.
What's new since version 0.92? Lots of stuff, including:
- new position specifier (random)
- mercator projections (-proj)
- rotated views (-rot)
- shading discontinuity at terminator (-term)
- rendering X image only once (-once)
- user-specifiable marker information (-markerfile)
- user-specifiable marker alignment (align=xxx)
- user-specifiable label position (-labelpos)
- mix of single- and double-pixel stars (-bigstars)
- support for new display depths (12, 15, 16, and 24 bits)
See the man page and HISTORY file for details.
Sources for xearth version 1.0 (tar-ed and gzip-ed, 150 kbytes) can be
obtained via a link from the xearth home page on the World Wide Web
(URL http://cag-www.lcs.mit.edu/~tuna/xearth/index.html). Alternately,
it can be obtained via anonymous ftp from:
cag.lcs.mit.edu:/pub/tuna/xearth-1.0.tar.gz
Share and enjoy,
kirk
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