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- README
- ======
-
- The xmailbox program started out as an enhanced xbiff. However, the latest
- version includes support for sound effects and animation. The default
- functionality employs two images for the "mail in mailbox" and "no mail"
- states, in the form of XPM type 3 files. The default images are, respectively,
- that of an empty mailbox with its flag down, and that of an open mailbox,
- with its flag up and a letter visible inside. Animation can be enabled for
- playing up to 8 XPM files in repeated sequence.
-
- The application can also, optionally, play a sound through a workstation's
- audio device, instead of generating the default beep sound, whenever new
- mail arrives. The following sound packages/drivers are supported:
-
- 1) NCD audio server
- 2) Rplay sound package
- 3) Linux's Sun-compatible audio driver (/dev/audio)
- 4) Standard SUN audio driver (/dev/audio)
- 5) FreeBSD SUN-compatible audio driver (contributed by Brian Clapper -
- bmc@telebase.com)
- 6) Any external sound player (contributed by Laurent Martin -
- martin@isia.cma.fr)
-
- By default, pressing any mouse button in the image forces xmailbox to
- remember the current size of the mail file as being the "empty" size and
- to change its image accordingly. In addition to this, the user can
- optionally have xmailbox invoke his/her favourite mail retrieving program.
-
- This program is nothing more than a wrapper around the Mailbox widget
- included with the program's source distribution. Mailbox was derived by
- the Mailbox widget included with the Athena Widget Set. The first version
- of Mailbox was a hack based on the X11R5 Mailbox widget written by
- Jim Fulton, MIT X Consortium, and Ralph Swick, DEC/MIT Project Athena. The
- xmailbox source is very similar to xbiff.
-
- INSTALLATION
- ============
-
- If you are planning to use the NCD Audio server or the rplay sound package,
- you can obtain these packages from ftp.x.org in /contrib/netaudio and
- /contrib/rplay respectively. These packages provide network sound support.
-
- To build xmailbox:
- 1. make any required changes in Imakefile, by specifying where the
- XPM includes and libs are, as well as the desired audio interface,
- 2. run "xmkmf -a" and then "make".
-
- This program has been tested on Sun Sparc 2 & IPX under SunOS 4.1.3,
- HP 9000/710 under HP-UX 9.01, and a 486 DX2-66 PC equipped with a
- Soundblaster 16 under Linux 1.2.x, 1.3.x, and 2.0.
-
- NOTE: You'll need xpm-3.4 or higher in order to compile xmailbox.
- ---- As of this writing, the latest version of xpm is 3.4; it can be
- obtained from ftp.x.org (in directory contrib, file xpm-3.4.tar.gz).
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Dimitrios P. Bouras (dbouras@hol.gr) and
- William K. W. Cheung (wcheung@mail.spiralcomm.com)
-
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- ==============
-
- The authors would like to thank the following individuals for contributing
- source codes to xmailbox:
-
- Brian Clapper (bmc@telebase.com)
- Laurent Martin (martin@isia.cma.fr)
-
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- THE AUTHORS (Dimitrios P. Bouras and William K. W. Cheung) MAKE NO
- REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THIS SOFTWARE FOR ANY PURPOSE.
- IT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY.
-
- Xbiff IS COPYRIGHT 1988, X CONSORTIUM
- SEE X(1) FOR A FULL STATEMENT OF RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS.
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