To: andrews_ERASE@technologist.com, Kirk Johnson Subject: xearth From: "Julian H. Stacey" Could you delete my name please, jhs@ as I don't seem to have any diffs, so can use the vanilla (ported) flavour via the FreeBSD ports collection, that andrews_ERASE@technologist.com maintains. I suggest you might insert andrews_ERASE@technologist.com on your xearth notification list instead, if not already on, Thanks. PS very nice program :-) Thanks Julian H. Stacey berklix.com/~jhs/ ------- Forwarded Message From tuna_ERASE@indra.com Wed Nov 10 00:13:02 1999 Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 06:04:14 +0100 From: Kirk Johnson Message-Id: <199911090504.WAA08520_ERASE@net.indra.com> To: jhs@ I am sending you a copy of the following because at some point in the past you sent me mail regarding xearth (or so my imperfect e-mail archives tell me). Apologies if this is something you are not interested in. kirk - ---- 8< ---- 8< ---- Announcing xearth version 1.1. 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 be configured to render into a top-level X window or directly into PPM and GIF files; see the man page for details. Version 1.1 is an attempt to finalize some changes that I've been sitting on for a few years (yeah, I know it's been over four years since the last release; more important things have been keeping me busy) and integrate some contributed code. Major new features include: - new position specifier (moon) - new rotation specifier (galactic) - cylindrical projections (-proj cyl) - support for "real" 24-bit displays - support for running xearth in its own top-level window (-noroot, -geometry) See the man page for details. Sources for xearth version 1.1 (tar-ed and gzip-ed, 154 kbytes) can be obtained via a link from the xearth home page on the World Wide Web (URL http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~tuna/xearth/index.html). ------- End of Forwarded Message