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From: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IFF viewer, UUencode, Kermit
Summary: Kermit does too work on binary files, and iff2sun works great!
Keywords: Kermit, iff2sun, 8to1, rasfilter8to1, rastrepl, Digi-View, PIXmate
Message-ID: <292@antares.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 88 08:01:49 GMT
References: <3763@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: pnelson@antares.UUCP (Phil Nelson)
Organization: Tymnet QSATS, San Jose CA
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In article <3763@pt.cs.cmu.edu> jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) writes:
>
>Give that man a cigar!  Kermit doesn't work for shit on binary
>files, even if you use binary mode.  I've been bitten by this
>one before.  You have to use UUencode or something.
>

It does work, I have recently copied several IFF files from my Amiga 2000 to
our Sun server using the kermit send function of VT100 (V2.8 ACS 880117). It
talks to C-Kermit well enough, though I admit it was a pain to get all the
parameters right. Dealing with flow control and 8 bit can be complicated,
but it does work once you get it set up.

I have converted these using iff2sun !!! Thank you, Steve Berry !!! to Sun
rasterfile format and displayed them on Sun workstations. One note about
the iff2sun documentation; on our system (SunOS 3.5) rasfilter8to1 does NOT
do dithering, although the man page says it does (it says "unknown option"
to -d). I use a program called 8to1 which went by on ?comp.sources.misc? a
while back.

So far, I am getting pretty good results on the mono workstations by
digitizing in 640 by 480 grey scale with Digiview 3.0, this image is about
the right size after it has been doubled once using rastrepl on the Sun
(576 by 450 doubles to the right size exactly). If you want to trim the
images to exactly the right size on the Amiga, I recommend PIXmate by
Progressive Peripherals & Software, I bought this Saturday, so far, I am
very favourably impressed. It lets me trim the image by sliding it around
with the cursor keys, also does a nice image sharpen, plus a lot more that
I havn't had time to try.


>Nerves like nylon, nerves like steel...
>
> Jamie MAXIMAL RESOURCES Zawinski
> jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu
> sun!sunpitt!eti!jwz
>-- 


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