Merge from gnus--rel--5.10

Patches applied:

 * gnus--rel--5.10  (patch 173-175)

   - Merge from emacs--devo--0
   - Update from CVS
   - Update from CVS: lisp/legacy-gnus-agent.el: Add Copyright notice.

2006-12-13  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>

   * lisp/gnus/legacy-gnus-agent.el: Add Copyright notice.

2006-12-12  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>

   * man/gnus.texi (X-Face): Clarify. Say which programs are required on
   Windows.

Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--devo--0--patch-558

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog
index 7d057a6e4aa..48864fa864f 100644
--- a/man/ChangeLog
+++ b/man/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-12-12  Reiner Steib  <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>
+
+        * gnus.texi (X-Face): Clarify.  Say which programs are required on
+        Windows.
+
 2006-12-09  Richard Stallman  <rms@gnu.org>
 
         * misc.texi (Invoking emacsclient): Simplify TCP file text.
diff --git a/man/gnus.texi b/man/gnus.texi
index a929bb2b208..14d344c986a 100644
--- a/man/gnus.texi
+++ b/man/gnus.texi
@@ -22175,21 +22175,26 @@ have suitable conversion or display programs installed.  If your Emacs
 has image support the default action is to display the face before the
 @code{From} header.  If there's no native @code{X-Face} support, Gnus
 will try to convert the @code{X-Face} header using external programs
-from the @code{pbmplus} package and friends.  For XEmacs it's faster if
-XEmacs has been compiled with @code{X-Face} support.  The default action
-under Emacs without image support is to fork off the @code{display}
-program.
+from the @code{pbmplus} package and friends, see below.  For XEmacs it's
+faster if XEmacs has been compiled with @code{X-Face} support.  The
+default action under Emacs without image support is to fork off the
+@code{display} program.
 
-On a GNU/Linux system, the @code{display} program is from the
+On a GNU/Linux system, the @code{display} program is included in the
 ImageMagick package.  For external conversion programs look for packages
 with names like @code{netpbm}, @code{libgr-progs} and @code{compface}.
-
-The variable that controls this is the
-@code{gnus-article-x-face-command} variable.  If this variable is a
+On Windows, you may use the packages @code{netpbm} and @code{compface}
+from @url{http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net}.  You need to add the
+@code{bin} directory to your @code{PATH} environment variable.
+@c In fact only the following DLLs and binaries seem to be required:
+@c compface1.dll uncompface.exe libnetpbm10.dll icontopbm.exe
+
+The variable @code{gnus-article-x-face-command} controls which programs
+are used to display the @code{X-Face} header.  If this variable is a
 string, this string will be executed in a sub-shell.  If it is a
 function, this function will be called with the face as the argument.
-If @code{gnus-article-x-face-too-ugly} (which is a regexp) matches
-the @code{From} header, the face will not be shown.
+If @code{gnus-article-x-face-too-ugly} (which is a regexp) matches the
+@code{From} header, the face will not be shown.
 
 (Note: @code{x-face} is used in the variable/function names, not
 @code{xface}).