From 8634cacfc81343a1561a84728fa081fffbe7c7a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tron Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 14:15:29 +0000 Subject: Shorten oversize description. --- mail/faces/DESCR | 53 ----------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 53 deletions(-) (limited to 'mail/faces') diff --git a/mail/faces/DESCR b/mail/faces/DESCR index 27ac7d63518..01878bac600 100644 --- a/mail/faces/DESCR +++ b/mail/faces/DESCR @@ -1,56 +1,3 @@ -What is faces? --------------- - This is the third general release of a "faces" server for monitoring a list visually. Typically this is a list of incoming mail messages, jobs in the print queue or users on a system. - -Faces has five different modes of operation: - - (a) The default will monitor for new mail. By default, only the last ten - messages are displayed. Using the left mouse button it is possible to - toggle the text in the faces window. This will either be the username - or the time the mail message arrived. The icon shows the image of the - last message to arrive. - - (b) You can monitor the whole of a mail file. The open window will - automatically adjust it's size to correctly show the face icons. The - open window options are the username or the timestamp and number of - message from that user. The icon will display the image of the last - message, and a count of the total number of messages in the spool - file or mail folder. - - (c) Monitoring a given print queue. This will generate a single face icon - showing the job at the top of the print queue, and the text message - will display the printer name plus the number of jobs to be printed. - Opening the window will show images of all the jobs in the queue. The - text on each image can be toggled, choices being the owners' name and - the size of the job in bytes. - - (d) Monitoring users on a machine. For each user, a face image is displayed. - Text can be either the username or the time they logged on. The iconic - form displays the total number of users. - - (e) Custom monitoring. You can specify a program or shell script to run. - The standard output from this program will be read by the faces program, - and the appropriate faces displayed using the information provided. The - format of this face information is given in the faces manual page. - -Included with this release, is the ability to include a face image with -your mail message using an X-Face header line (plus continuation lines). -Faces expects this line to be in a certain compressed format, and -uncompresses it, and displays that image on-the-fly. There is also an -option to automatically update the faces database with this new image. - -Audio capabilities are also provided as a conditional compilation option. - -By default, after every sixty seconds, faces will recheck the mail file or -the print queue. If the mail spool file has changed size, it will produce a -chain of records for which it has face icons. - -This release contains graphical interfaces for NeWS, SunView, X11 and XView. - -Faces is based on the AT&T v8 face server called vismon, but is not derived -from vismon sources. With the previous version came vismon compatibility. -Note that that resulted in a few changes from the way faces v1.1 worked. -See the manual pages for more details. -- cgit v1.2.3