Quill - an easy-to-use X11 graphics library
v1.0 copyleft 1997 *fuzzy* (the porcupine) / grey

this is a really simple graphics library.  see quill.h for documentation
and testquill.c for context-related usage.  fair enough, eh?

to install, just type 'make install' as superuser.  it is a stupid
installer which assumes that you have /usr/local/lib and
/usr/local/include (replace /usr/local with whatever you set INSTROOT to,
if you desire)

to uninstall, just type 'make uninstall' as superuser.  same thing.

to install and compile the test in one swell foop, 'make all' shall do ye
nicely.

to make the testgraph program, type 'make testgraph'.  whee.  to clean it
up type 'make clean'.

a little info on this library: it uses the X11 DirectColor visual.  as
such, programs compiled with it will only work in an 8bpp display (and it
currently doesn't check first... i can add this later should there be
enough demand). also, to get the proper palette for the window the mouse
cursor needs to be in the window which is why i provide the 16-pixel
border around the actual graphics (so that the cursor doesn't necessarily
cover the display).  each window can have its own separate palette, and
the palette displayed will match whichever window the cursor is in.  whee. 

feel free to use this for your own purposes, as long as you credit me.  if
you want the source to the library (all 177 lines of it), contact me at
pascal@acm.org and i just might send it to you. :)

greets go to:
  - Rasterman, writer of XFlame, who made the copyright which makes it so
    that i have to copyleft rather than copyright (the library code is
    partially based on XFlame since i didn't have my trusty Xlib manual at
    the time... once i get my Xlib manual back i can say that i got the
    code from there. :)
  - Ross Coombs, who first referred me to XFlame
  - all the cool people on AnotherNet #coders, and deepee too
  - all my MUCK friends, 'specially fEk (yiff! :)
  - winghead, who gave it the poetic name 'quill'

flames go to:
  - Rasterman, who doesn't know how to write a flame algorithm or do
    proper colormaps. :)  (thank goodness for manpages...)
  - Ross Coombs, who originally gave me a broken version of the XFlame
    code :)
  - all the cool people on AnotherNet #coders who haven't switched to
    linux yet (for development anyway), especially the ones who *like*
    win'95 :)

l8r
