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RGB(1)  —  NEWS-OS Programmer’s Manual

NAME

rgb − generate hashed color database

SYNOPSIS

/usr/bin/X11/rgb [ output_path ]

DESCRIPTION

rgb read ascii color database from standard input and output the hashed one used by Xserver(1).  rgb will create database files named output_path.pag and output_path.dir. If no output_path is specified, /usr/lib/X11/rgb is assumed. 
 
For each color, a single line should be present with the following information:

intensity of red

intensity of green

intensity of blue

name of color

Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters.  But such characters in name of color are part of value.  Each intensity is specifyed by decimal number which ranges from 0 to 255.  The case of letters is ignored. 
 
rgb will exit with a non-zero exit code if fail to create files.  Any illegal input line will ignored, and error message will printed. 

FILES

/usr/lib/X11/rgb.dir- standard database filenames
/usr/lib/X11/rgb.pag
/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt- source of standard database

SEE ALSO

X(1), Xserver(1), ndbm(3X)

NEWS-OSRelease 4.1C

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