From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:03:03 +0200
From: Jan Hubicka hubicka@horac.ta.jcu.cz
Subject: [9fans] XaoS - first useable version
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Hi
yesterday I got first version of XaoS working quite well so if you are
interested, you might download it from ftp.ta.jcu.cz/pub/linux/hubicka/experimental/xaos30zd.tgz
It should in both 1bpp and 8bpp modes. Please let me know how do you like it
and your ideas for improvement.

I have again few questions:

How can I write text in inversed (if possible) Ie black background, since I
think it looks better in XaoS.

I removed gif saving code (due to pantent problems) and use pnglib instead.
I think it don't worth to port pnglib into plan9, since it is quite ugly
(IMO). As I saw in doc, plan9 has its own image format (pic) so I should
save it into it. But I din't found any library for that except tifflib,
wich looks rather strange and non-plan9ish. Is there any way to handle
image files easilly in plan9? Any library? (or any example of tifflib
saving code?)

Thread support is still missing because of lack of lock/sleep+wakeup mechanizm.
Still awaiting your ideas :)

Honza
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