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Dear Ole,
   The problem with running off of PC X-servers is that they tend to
arrange the colormap differently than UNIX systems do.  I have added
some hooks to environment variables that are supposed to deal with
this situation, which hopefully is relevant to what you're experiencing
(I seem to recall similar behavior when I was changing the code).
Somewhere between magic 6.5.1 and 7.1 I added the hooks.  The way to
use them is to declare the following in the UNIX shell (either before
executing magic, or in the login file):

setenv X_COLORMAP_BASE 128
setenv X_COLORMAP_DEFAULT 0

This is supposed to solve the problem.  Alternatively, you can run magic
in 16-bit mode instead of forcing the Windows system to run in 8 bits.
This is supposed to work automatically if you have the Windows screen
visual set to 16 bits (or 24 bits);  if it doesn't, you can force magic
to use the correct visual using

setenv MAGIC_COLOR "16bit"

or the appropriate string.  Sorry that these features are not documented.

						Regards,
						Tim

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