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From: Ethan Dicks <dickset_at_amanda.spole.gov>
Date: Mon Oct 18 12:41:11 2004

On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:46:49AM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> I remember thinking how cool Linux was because it had xearth and Windows
> didn't :-)

That is my background on my _on-topic_ SPARC desktop.

I've been hacking xearth recently to render the Polar regions white.
Unfortunately, the shape tables are not commented, so I have to go
through manually to determine what shapes correspond to what land
features.

First-order approximation looks pretty good, though.

-ethan

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