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CMatrix - show a scrolling 'Matrix' like screen in Linux (curses based)
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CMatrix Homepage - be sure to check out the latest version =-)
http://www.asty.org/cmatrix

To compile the program, type 'make'.

CMatrix by default operates in 'eye candy' mode.  It must be aborted with
control-c or 'q'.  If you wish for more of a 'screen saver' effect, you
must specify -s on the command line.  For usage, use cmatrix -h.

  To get the program to look most like the movie, use cmatrix -lba
  To get the program to look most like the Win/Mac screensaver, use
  cmatrix -ol

   You'll probably need a decent ncurses library to get this to work. I
have provided a binary that depends on ncurses 4.2 & glibc6.
   If you have any suggestions/flames/patches to send, please feel free to
do so.  Please do not critique my code, I know I'm a hack ;-)  I just got
the urge to write this one evening, and decided to see how fast I could do
it.  It's probably not particularly portable or efficient, but I'm pretty
sure it wont hog *too* much CPU time.

Chris Allegretta
[email protected]

Thanks to:
- Krisjon Hanson and Bjoern Ganslandt for helping with bold support and 
  Bjoern again for the cursor removal code, helping with the -u and -l
  modes/flags, and Makefile improvements.
- Adam Gurno for multi-color support.
- Garrick West for debian consolefont dir support.
- nemo for design thoughts and continuous help and support.
- John Donahue for helping with transparent term support
- Ben Esacove for Redhat 6 compatibility w/matrix.psf.gz
- Everyone who has been sending (and who will send) me mail regarding
  bugs, comments, patches or just a hello. =-)
- jwz for the xmatrix module to xscreensaver at http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver.
- My girlfriend Amy for not killing me when I stayed up till 3AM writing this =)
- The makers of the Matrix for one kickass movie!

This software is provided under the GNU GPL.  I am in no way affiliated
in any way with the movie 'The Matrix', just a big fan.