From bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!mips!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu Mon Jan 6 14:37:24 EST 1992 Article: 2528 of alt.sources.d Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu alt.graphics.pixutils:2344 alt.sources.d:2528 comp.sources.wanted:20433 comp.windows.news:2881 comp.windows.x:47080 news.groups:42976 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!mips!samsung!news.cs.indiana.edu!kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu From: kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Kinzler) Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.sources.d,comp.sources.wanted,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x,news.groups Subject: Available/Wanted: icons for newsgroups; iconic news monitor Summary: info on bitmap databases and software for iconic news/mail monitoring Keywords: faces, bitmaps, icons, news Message-ID: <1992Jan4.154327.4306@news.cs.indiana.edu> Date: 4 Jan 92 20:43:19 GMT Followup-To: comp.sources.wanted Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University Lines: 80 I have available a collection of 264 small bitmaps to represent various newsgroups and news hierarchies. They're all in X11 xbm monochrome format, sized 48x48. The collection may be retrieved from iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (129.79.254.192) anonymous ftp as the file pub/faces/news.tar.Z. They're also retrievable via a mail server -- send mail to mailserv@cs.indiana.edu with the word "help" in the body for details on using the mail server. The collection also includes a complete set of Olympic sport events bitmaps. Also, in pub/faces/logos.tar.Z, there is a collection of 309 bitmaps representing various universities, companies, countries, etc by their domain name. I'd like to solicit more submissions to these collections/databases. To submit a bitmap to a database, mail the bitmap to faces-news@cs.indiana.edu or faces-logos@cs.indiana.edu as appropriate. The subject line should contain only the newsgroup or newsgroup hierarchy the news bitmap is for (eg, "comp.unix.shell" or "comp") or the domain address or hierarchy the logo bitmap is for (eg, "sei.cmu.edu" or "cmu.edu"). Please submit each bitmap in a separate mailing. You'll receive an automatic acknowledgement of its receipt, and be credited in the collection's listing. The mail should contain only the bitmap, preferably in X11 xbm 48x48 format. Any extra comments about the submitted bitmaps can be mailed separately to kinzler@cs.indiana.edu Until they're checked out and incorporated into the complete databases, submitted bitmaps will be available separately in the iuvax archives (pub/faces/incoming/{logos,news}). These bitmap databases were created primarily for use with the "faces" software, also available in the iuvax archives. Faces is a window based tool for visually monitoring lists. Typically it is used to monitor mail, print queues or users on a system. It contains graphical interfaces for NeWS, SunView, XView and X11. Bitmaps can be created by hand or scanned in with a scanner and scaled down to 48x48 size. Also, one can scrounge around existing bitmap collections for bitmaps that can be converted and scaled to an appropriate bitmap for these collections. Tools to aid in faces bitmap creation are available in the filters directory of the faces source distribution. Also, I've found these tools to be invaluable: bitmap(1) -- for X11, especially the X11R5 version xgrabsc(1),xfontsel(1),xview(1),xmag(1) -- for X11 pbmplus package -- a bunch of bitmap filters and tools, some of the faces filter tools need these I could envision these databases being used in software other than "faces". Currently, the only application I know of for the news database is a "faces" application called "newscheck". It's like an iconic version of "rn -c" or "nncheck -t", showing you which of the newsgroups you read have new news and how many articles in each. To run "newscheck" you need: 1) "faces" version 1.6.0 or later 2) X11, XView, SunView or NeWS windowing system 3) the news bitmap database 4) perl The newscheck application is "newscheck.faces" in the scripts directory of the faces source distribution. You can run it with something like: % faces -f /news -e /newscheck.faces -p 300 where and are the paths to the news database and the newscheck script, respectively. -- from the brain of Steve Kinzler /o)\ kinzler@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu an organ with a mind of its own \(o/ {ames,rutgers}!iuvax!kinzler