xfractint - fractal generation program

       The original Unix port was done by Ken Shirriff (shirriff@eng.sun.com).
       Xfractint was updated to Fractint 19.5 by Tim Wegner (twegner@fractint.org)
       under Linux 2.0. Please report updates for other platforms to Tim Wegner.
       The current official release is 20.0.
       The primary authors of Fractint 20.0 are:
       Timothy Wegner         twegner@fractint.org
       Jonathan Osuch         josuch@fractint.org
       George Martin          ggmartin@compuserve.com
       Robin Bussell          robin.b2@ukonline.co.uk

                                                      20.04                                         XFRACTINT(1)

       There are many bugs and things that haven't been implemented.

       Boundary tracing sometimes locks up.

       Passes=2 has problems??

       Symmetry that is offset slightly doesn't always complete the image.

       The top of the help screens are messed up.  Starting your xterm with
              -geometry 80x25 fixes this.

       Xfractint uses a bizarre (to Unix users) user interface which was directly copied from the  IBM  version.
       If you don't have the appropriate keys, use the following key mappings:
       IBM             Unix
       F1 to F10       Shift-1 to Shift-0
       INSERT          I
       DELETE          D
       PAGE_UP         U
       PAGE_DOWN       N
       LEFT_ARROW      H
       RIGHT_ARROW     L
       UP_ARROW        K
       DOWN_ARROW      J
       HOME            O
       END             E
       CTL_PLUS        }
       CTL_MINUS       {

       Copyright 1991 - 2010 by The Stone Soup Group

Xfractint  draws  a  wide  variety  of  fractals.   Xfractint  is  a port of the IBM PC program fractint.
       Xfractint has online documentation which should be referenced for most operation information.  Note  that
       the  online  documentation  is  from fractint, and does not always accurately describe xfractint.  A text
       version of the online documentation can be generated by running ``make doc''.

       xfractint - fractal generation program

       -display display_name
              Specifies the X11 display to use.

       -onroot
              Indicates the resulting images should appear on the root  window.   Note:  rubberband  zoom  boxes
              don't work on the root window.

       -private
              Indicates  that  xfractint  should  allocate  as  many  colors  as possible in a private colormap.
              Normally xfractint will use 128 colors; this flag will let you use all 256, but may  mess  up  the
              colors in other windows.  This is not necessary if you are using greater than 8-bit color.

       -slowdisplay
              Indicates  that  the  machine  has  a  slow  display,  so  the  scrolling window should be updated
              infrequently.  Use this flag if xfractint hangs on the title screen.

       -fast  Indicates that xfractint should use the faster  drawing  mode.   Instead  of  drawing  each  pixel
              immediately, xfractint will save up pixels and then refresh the screen every 5 seconds.  Depending
              on your X implementation, this may make drawing twice as fast.

       -disk  Use  disk video.  That is, generate the picture in memory instead of to the screen.  The resulting
              picture can be saved as a gif file or printer file.

       -fixcolors num
              Specifies the number of colors to use.  This number must be a power of  two.   Also,  this  number
              can't be greater than the number of colors available.  And, it can't be greater than 256.

       -geometry WxH[{+-X}{+-Y}]
              This sets the size and position of the image window.  The default is 800x600 pixels.

       -share Indicates  that  xfractint  should  share  the  current colormap.  That is, xfractint uses as many
              colors as possible, but doesn't modify the colormap.  This is  not  necessary  with  greater  than
              8-bit colors.

       -simple
              Uses  simpler  keyboard  handling.  Use this flag if you wish to debug xfractint with gdb, or else
              you may get "(gdb)" repeated infinitely.

       xxx=yyy
              Sets variable xxx to value yyy.  See the online documentation for more  details  on  the  possible
              variables.

       @filename
              Loads parameters from the specified file.

       @filename/groupname
              Reads a named group of parameters from the specified file.

       -psviewer
              Allows  the  user  to  change  the  default postscript viewer.  The viewer is called when the user
              prints an image with ctrl-p. The default viewer is gv.

       -ctrlwindow
              Allows the user to have a separate control window similar to the ncurses interface.

       -font  Loads the selected font.

       -fontbold
              Loads the selected bold font.

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