Re: Oversized Pictures

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <24klqpINN2ol@gap.caltech.edu>, Todd P. Whitesel writes...
> 
> I see... still, eating up lots of space on CCO for picture data is not
> good. Keeping the data in a more portable format (i.e. not APF) whose
> compression is better (like GIF or JPEG) and leaving it on other FTP
> sites ...

    Perhaps someone should delete that 3-meg Canyon.shk animation file
then... ;-)  The APF's are smaller than the original GIF's (16 colours
vs. 256 colours) and JPEG's aren't practical on a GS anyway.  I don't
plan to upload the rest to caltech.  A couple were sent there to see if
anyone was interested in them.

> This is something for the "1 gig drive" if it ever becomes reality
> (where is Steve Chiang anyway? I lamed out and lost his address again
> and couldn't send in my contribution).

    I sure hope it comes into existence.  Internex Online (plug: telnet
to io.org, login as 'new' for a free account) just added a 1-gig drive
and we plan to open an anonymous FTP server soon.  Steve is still
accepting cheques -- I sent mine in about a week ago.

> >greyscale dithering routine.  I'd use LHG for colour, but for some
> >reason, it crashes every time I exit it in GNO.  :(
> 
> That's strange. Jawaid tells me it works great under GNO. Maybe you have
> something else in your system that is stomping on it.

    Hmmm... this was a while ago with GNO 1.0, but I'm sure I tried
running it with a shift-boot.  I know it *used* to work, but obviously
something in my system setup changed.  Can you e-mail me the latest
version?
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