Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!HELIOS.EE.LBL.GOV!jef
From: jef@HELIOS.EE.LBL.GOV (Jef Poskanzer and Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X10 xphoon available for FTP.
Message-ID: <8808160523.AA01951@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 16 Aug 88 05:23:42 GMT
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Xphoon sets the X root window to display a picture of the moon in its
current phase, including the partial lighting of the dark side by reflected
earthlight.

The original motivation for this program was that xsetroot was TOO SLOW.
Loading a full-screen bitmap took about 15 seconds.  We made a trivial
program that had fullmoon.bitmap compiled in, and it ran in less than a
second.  (And incidentally, the executable was smaller than fullmoon.bitmap.)
Then later we came up with the cheapmoons, the phase hacking, and finally
the earthlight.

Xphoon can be FTPed from rtsg.ee.lbl.gov (128.3.254.68) as x10_xphoon.tar.Z.
Remember to use binary mode when you retrieve it.  For those who can't FTP,
we have mailed it off to the moderator of comp.sources.x.

An X11 version will appear eventually.  The conversion is trivial, but we
haven't bothered to do it yet.  We don't use X11 here yet because it is TOO
SLOW.