Hello !

Congrats for downloading this masterpiece of  bogus-software !

COMPILING & RUNNING
  I don't really encourage you to use this program at all, unless Client
  and Xserver are  either the same machine or connected by a usually
  death-bored LAN-cable,  or  you simply don't care a bit about speed
  and network traffic. Anyway ...

  The Makefile will need some modifications, iff you either use
  some other compiler than gcc or have not set QTDIR. 
  Once the Makefile is Ok, it should compile out of the box.
  Then just run it. After watching it long enough, you can ^Zbg 
  it to the background and restart it with "-h" for a usage-message.

  REQUIREMENTS:
    - Some  C++ compiler
    - Qt-library  (get it from:  http://www.troll.no/)
         (must be 1.30 or newer (with some quirks 1.2 will do, too) )

  It was developed under Linux and tested on Linux and HP-UX (on the
  latter with modifications to the Makefile) 


WARRANTY & COPYRIGHT & LICENSING: 
  Warranty: Warranty ????  what the hell is that ?
  Copyright'n'Licensing: something along the words of GPL
      (subject to change within bounds allowed by Qt's free-license)

MSDAQ ("Maybe Some Day Asked Questions": not yet FAQ)
  - Will there be new/more features ?
      Yes, if I get the time to do them

  - Which are on the TODO-list ?
      There should be a more versatile Makefile (or even one for tmake)
      There should be a manpage/html-docu (or best: both)
      There should be a way of having more than one frame for pacman
         (this is probably tricky but it can be done)
      There should be a way of customizing just the color of the 
         builtin pixmaps. (I don't see an easy way to do this)

  - Is this program all your idea ?
      Nope. It's based on some program named "crabs" in the early
      years of Xterminals about which I somewhere read an article. 
      Actually the source-code itself is written by me from scratch; 
      it's only the basic movement-pattern that I adopted and adapted
      from "crabs".
      (Differences: color-support, slightly changed `personality',
      Some command line params added, so you don't have to recompile
      each time you want to change some parameters.)

  - Is there anything _I_ can do for you ?
      Yup:  proper Makefile, proper Docu, making suggestions for
      additional features.

  - Will there be more of software of that kind (bogus) ?
      Yup: waiting for sufficient motivation to make public are:
         dragdraw: lets you draw across the screen (freehand)
         rotmouse: rotates the contents of the screen near the mouse
              (fun to start for someone else's screen)
         shake: your mouse won't get to rest anymore ...
         piano: displays a piano-keyboard and actually plays the tunes
              (utilizing Xterminal-bell; Unix-only)
      Just tell me, if you're interested in one of them, and whether
      you'd like it to be integrated into pacman (through options) or
      as a standalone program. (These programs more or less already exist, 
      but I like the feeling of people asking me to make them public :-)

This program has been committed by  Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
    (, who is NOT to be blamed for network-latencies caused by
    this program, unless it's actually him running it ... ;-)

