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This program is my response the the Eyecon program, which was a response to the original xeyes.  Actually, this was a response which I had done sometime last summer (July, I'd say), and I've just been lazy.  But now, I've decided to get on the ball and finish up all of these nice little programs I have lying around . . . yah.

Anyhow, this program runs best from the Workspace, and I leave it installed as an autolaunch in my dock.  I've spent some time honing it so that it has very little startup overhead, something I wish more applications would do.  A side effect of this is that the info panel takes a little while to come up.  So what.  You only read it once anyhow, right?

To get things rolling, do a make in this directory.  This gives you a file to play with.  To really get serious, do a make install, to put it into your ~/Apps directory.  Then, a Find Applications from the Utilities menu of the Workspace will get its icon noticed, and you can see it in the Browser.  Also, after make install runs, the executable is only 73k (why so large?  I couldn't tell you.)  Then, you could put it into /LocalApps if you would like.  Talk to your local system administrator if you'd like this.  It saves space if many people want it.

The code for this is free distributed.  I don't even care if you put my name in it, though I really would appreciate it.  I also would rather you didn't distribute this package with your name in it (unless you've added to it, of course).  Please just be nice to it, OK?  The one requirement I make if you are going to use it is that you run it and read the info panel.  Click on the buttons at the top, and read that also.  There's not much there, and I'd just like everyone to see it.  Thanks.

Scott Hess
scott@gacvax1.bitnet
PO box 832
Gustavus Adolphus College
St. Peter, Mn	56082

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