Re: Lame Newbie

Article: 7897 of alt.hackers
From: elf@ee.ryerson.ca (Luis Fernandes)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Re: Lame Newbie
Date: 28 May 1995 09:48:22 -0400
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University
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Approved: That's a rather lovely pair of...um, nevermind
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In-reply-to: steve1@genesis.nred.ma.us's message of 28 May 1995 08:50:09 GMT
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(There's also a java TTT game on the Web (see URL, below)).

>>>>> "steve1" == steve belczyk
<steve1@genesis.nred.ma.us> writes:

    > I want to write a Web chess game...

Sun is sponsoring a hotjava applet contest (http://java.sun.com); 1st
prize is their Voyager SPARCstation ($US 15K). If you have access to
Solaris 2.x, then you should seriously consider writing a Chess
applet and entering the contest.

Netscape is going to license java for their browser; in a little
while, java-capable browsers will be the standard and cgi scripts
will be a waste of time.

ObHack:

#!/bin/sh
#
# atoroot: Set the root-window (usually login) of an X display to
#          tiled-bitmap of a given string (usually the hostname).
#
# Author: Nick Colonello, nick@ee.ryerson.ca
#         (with a *little* help from Luis Fernandes, elf@ee.ryerson.ca)
# Finished, Thu Dec 16 18:03:57 EST 1993 after a 2-hr hacking session
#
# Usage: atoroot <string>
#
# This program may be used to identify hosts (especially those
# configured as X-terminals running off the same host). Use of this
# program precludes the need to physically attach identifying labels,
# which get grottier with age, to machines .
#
# NOTES:
# This program is normally run by xdm; site-wide use of this program
# requires 3 files to be modified(or created): xdm-config, Xsetup_0 and
# Xsetup_remote. To test it, just run it from the command-line.
#
# (Note that the path /usr/X11R5/lib/ in the examples below should be
# replaced by the path specific to your site).
#
# In xdm-config, the resource DisplayManager*setup, is set to point to
# scripts that run atoroot as follows:
# !Xsetup_remote is the script for remote machines
# DisplayManager*setup:           /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_remote
# !Xsetup_0 is the script for local displays
# DisplayManager._0.setup:        /usr/X11R5/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
#
# Xsetup_0:
# /usr/local/bin/atoroot `hostname`
# #do other things, like run xconsole...
#
# Xsetup_remote:
# #Pass host-name without the display-number
# /usr/local/bin/atoroot `echo $DISPLAY | sed 's/:.*$//'`
#
# BUGS
# This has only been tested on Suns.
#
# Copyright (c) 1993 Nick Colonello
# This program is provided AS IS without so much as a hint of any
# warranty or support.
#
TMP1=/tmp/xdmset1.$$
TMP2=/tmp/xdmset2.$$
TMP3=/tmp/xdmset3.$$

L=`echo $1 | wc -c`
L=`expr \( $L - 1 \) \* 8`

/usr/5bin/banner $1 | sed "s/$/
/" | tr " " "-" | cut -c1-${L} >$TMP1
sed 's/./-/g' <$TMP1 >$TMP2

(paste -d"-" $TMP1 $TMP2 ; paste -d"-" $TMP2 $TMP1 ) |
# comment-out the following while-loop for a smaller-looking font effect
while
read LINE
do
echo $LINE
echo $LINE
done |
# Un-comment the following line for a bigger-looking font effect
#sed -e 's/-/--/g' -e 's/#/##/g' |
atobm >$TMP3

xsetroot -bg gray -fg white -bitmap $TMP3

rm -f $TMP1 $TMP2 $TMP3

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