At 2003-01-31T20:08:10Z, Wes Hardaker writes: > So, I played around a bit more with a better version of the oort cloud and > have the following better replacements to suggest. They're all better, > but I like the 3rd the best I think. Just a quick note: by converting the xpm files to pngs, I was able to cut the total size from 225778 bytes to 14167 bytes. Before: kirk@pooh:~$ ls -la *.xpm -rw-r--r-- 1 kirk kirk 75257 Feb 1 10:43 gnus-eye5.xpm -rw-r--r-- 1 kirk kirk 75293 Feb 1 10:43 gnus-eye6.xpm -rw-r--r-- 1 kirk kirk 75228 Feb 1 10:42 gnus-new2.xpm The conversion process: for i in gnus*.xpm; do xpmtoppm < $i | pnmtopng > $i.png; done After: kirk@pooh:~$ ls -la gnus*.png -rw-r--r-- 1 kirk kirk 3553 Feb 1 11:12 gnus-eye5.xpm.png -rw-r--r-- 1 kirk kirk 4512 Feb 1 11:12 gnus-eye6.xpm.png -rw-r--r-- 1 kirk kirk 6102 Feb 1 11:12 gnus-new2.xpm.png -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.