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@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ now be used as a screensaver without modification.  The programs that
 are being run as screensavers don't need to have any special knowledge
 about what it means to be a screensaver.
 
-The XIdle extension will be used if you have it (win win.)
+The XIDLE or MIT-SCREEN-SAVER server extensions will be used if you have
+them (win win.)
 
 Unfortunately, locking doesn't work if you don't have Motif.
 
@@ -37,6 +38,7 @@ window, which are pointed at by the screensaver's default resource settings.
    qix         - My own implementation of this, with many more options
                  than you would have thought qix could have.
    helix       - Generates spirally "stringart" patterns.
+   pedal       - Draws a different kind of spirally pattern.
    rorschach   - Random inkblot patterns.
    attraction  - A bouncing ball demo, or a qix-like demo, or a wild
                  color-cycling thing, with some odd rules.
@@ -80,11 +82,23 @@ server extension instead of XIdle.  I didn't have time to do this before the
 deadline for the R6 contrib tape, but by the time you read this, maybe it's
 done - check a later release.
 
-The latest version of xscreensaver is on LUCID.COM and FTP.X.ORG.
+The latest version of xscreensaver is on FTP.X.ORG.
 
-       -- Jamie Zawinski <jwz@lucid.com>
+       -- Jamie Zawinski <jwz@mcom.com>
 
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+Changes since 1.24:    Made it capture the stdout/stderr of its subprocesses
+                       and present them on the screensaver window itself.
+                       Made demo mode work correctly with non-default visuals
+                       and color maps, instead of always using the defaults.
+                       Added -visual argument to all included screenhacks.
+                       Support for the R6 MIT-SCREEN-SAVER server extension.
+                       Made the demo mode list scroll properly.
+                       Added `pedal' hack.
+Changes since 1.23:    Fixed some private-colormap oddities in slidescreen,
+                       decayscreen, and xroger.  Fixed apparent conservation-
+                       of-mass problem in pyro; made the shrapnel round.
+Changes since 1.22:    Minor tweaks for IRIX5; fixed locking race condition.
 Changes since 1.21:    Minor tweaks for X11R6.
                        Fixes for non-default visuals.
 Changes since 1.20:    Fixed bug in color blitspin; added default image.