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wmstock-0.11-2mdk.i586.rpm

The inspiration and some of the code for wmstock came from wmWeather (v1.30),
an excellent dock application.  wmWeather was written by Mike Henderson
and it is available from: 

	http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~mgh/WindowMaker/DockApps.shtml

*** I no longer use this PERL package, but I did take some code from it,
and used it for versions 0.01 and 0.02 ***

I also used some code from the Finance::YahooQuotes PERL Module, which is 
written by Dj Padzensky <djpadz@padz.net> The Finance::YahooQuote home page can
 be found at http://www.padz.net/~djpadz/YahooQuote/


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As I learned more about writing dock apps, I produced more and more of 
my own code, and fixed what I believe were engineering flaws in wmWeather,
however, I recommend to anyone who wants to get started in dock app programming
to start with wmWeather, and perhaps also check out this page:
	
	http://www.inria.fr/koala/lehors/xpm.html (info about XPMs)

Also, for those of you using XPMs in your code, I found its easier to start
with someone elses XPM, use your favorite text editor to rename the
variables in the structure, and then a picture editor (xpaint) to edit the
image.  For me, I had to work with the image as a ppm in xpaint, and then
run ppmtoxpm to convert the image.

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Thanks to these people for helping fix/identify bugs

Bug			Date		Credit
No ticker name		06/21/99	Keldon Jones (keldon@umr.edu) - my
					roommate, wrote a 20 byte patch.
Various fixes           06/24/99        Thomas Ribbrock - wrote a large patch
					to fix lots of stuff!
More Various fixes      07/02/99        Thomas Ribbrock (emgaron@gmx.net) - another large
					patch with lots of changes and fixes
					(see CHANGES for details)
Window needs to clear   07/02/99        Keldon Jones (the notorious K-Dogg) -
					still my roommate, consulted on this.
HP-UX compilation/docs  04/19/00	Dan Pfefferkorn got this to run on
				        his 712 workstation and gave me
				 	some notes on it.