----- Original Message ----- From: "Jochen Küpper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:12 PM Subject: compface package
> I'm submitting the compface package for cygwin inclusion. Hope that > works out. I'll maintain it (in case that it really needs any > attention for this package:) > > binary and source can be found at > http://www.unc.edu/~jochen/archive/compface-1.4-2.tar.gz > http://www.unc.edu/~jochen/archive/compface-1.4-2.src.tar.gz > > setup.hint is > @ compface > sdesc: Conversion utilitities for face graphics > ldesc: "The program (two programmes really - but they're just links to each > other) converts 48x48x1 images to and from a compressed format. The > uncompressed images are expected to contain 48x48/4 (576) hex digits. > All other characters and any `0's followed by `X' or `x' are ignored. > Usually the files are 48 lines of "0x%04X,0x%04X,0x%04X,". The > compressed images contain some number of printable characters. Non > printable characters, including ` ' are ignored. The purpose of the > programme is to allow the inclusion of face images within mail headers > using the field name `X-face: '. > The programmes make use of a library which can be used to allow the > compression and decompression algorithms to be used in other > programmes such as mail dispatchers and mail notification daemons." > test: 1.4-2 > category: Mail Libs Utils > requires: cygwin Thank you. I've no objection to this: does any other maintainer have an objection to compface being a package? onto the mechanics: Your setup.hint looks good. Have you addressed any textmode/binmode issues? Also I get a 404 error trying to grab either file. Rob