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Subject: Re: looking for graphics conversion program
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From: ucsdhub!jack!crash!jeh@ucsd.edu  (Jamie Hanrahan)
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Subject: Re: looking for graphics conversion program
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Digital has a Regis-to-sixel converter program, cleverly named RETOS.  Price
is EXTREMELY reasonable for the DEC software universe, e.g. $126 for a 
MicroVAX 2000, to a peak of $1,995 for a VAX 8978.  We've ordered it and
have heard from others that it does a good job.  Unlike the hacks that use
the sixel-upload capability of VT124, VT240, etc., terminals, RETOS uses the
full resolution of the output device -- circles lose their jaggies, etc.  
(Info from the Winter/Spring 88 DECDirect catalog and from conversations with
other users.)