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The code contained herein has been developed to help foster the use of standard
colormaps within X applications, middleware, vendor offerings and future
standardization efforts.  Please feel free to contact me with any questions
regarding this software.

    Peter Kaczowka
    kaczowka@ch.hp.com
    HP Chelmsford MA

This directory contains directories with source code for creating and accessing
X standard colormaps.  For more information on X standard colormaps see
(starting at page 220):

    "Xlib Programming Manual for Version 11, Release 4" by Adrian Nye
    (c) 1990 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
    ISBN 0-937175-11-0

Each sub-directory has a README, a Makefile and a IMakefile.  The 
[I]Makefile in (this) top-level directory does a [i]make in each of 
the sub-directories.

The following are the contents of the sub-directories:

    lib        contains Xscmlib (libxscm.a), a library for accessing standard
               colormaps, particularly those created by xscm

    test       contains testxscm a test program that uses Xscmlib

    xcoloruse  contains xcoloruse, a utility to display the number of color
               cells in use in the DefaultVisual

    xscm       contains xscm, a program to create, list and delete standard
               colormaps