From: jmadison AT upucs DOT iupui DOT edu (Jon M. Madison)
Subject: Re: Graphics again
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk (A.Appleyard)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 23:59:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Reply-To: jmadison AT iupucs DOT iupui DOT edu

>   More re graphics: people keep sending me .GIF and .JPEG graphics:
>   (1) What can I read them with? Can `Paintshop Pro' read them? Where to get
> it? Is it on oak.oakland.edu, and if so, what directory and filename on?
yes. if you got windoze, lview is freeware, and is at:
ftp.cica.indiana.edu:/pub/pc/win3/util(or either desktop)/lview*zip
(or at ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/cica/util(or either desktop)/lview*zip

>   (2) Where can I find details of the internal format of .PCX, .GIF, .JPEG,
> etc graphics files?, so I can write my own files in those formats if I have
> to.
there's a great book called 'encyclopedia of graphics image formats'
(or some such) put out by o'reilly (okay, i don't know if it's great
either, but o'reilly does it, so it's worth something!) you prolly
wanna check out. comes w/ a CD w/source, i believe.


j.
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