From: sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
Subject: Re: where is FAQ ??
Keywords: where is FAQ
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:12:55 GMT

In article <16elnaINNkqv@network.ucsd.edu> frost@sdsc.edu writes:
>Is there an FAQ for this group?  If so, where is it archived?
>
>Thanks!


There is no FAQ for this newsgroup yet - it is still rather new.

But let me remind folks that there are FAQ's in a number of other
related newsgroups that answer a number of the questions asked in
this news-group. Here is a partial list of related newsgroups: 

	Comp.graphics
	Comp.graphics.research
	Comp.graphics.visualization
	Alt.graphics.pixutils		<< for file format and conversion
						packages, especially
	Comp.compression
	Comp.compression.research

	and all of the Alt.binaries.pictures.*  groups post the same
	  FAQ more of less that explains some common image file formats
	  and viewer programs for PC/Mac/Unix/et.al. 

I don't know if all of these groups have FAQ's, but all FAQ's are always
cross-posted to News.answers. ( Comp.archives is another good newsgroup
to check if you think your question may be a Frequently Asked one to 
SOME newsgroup! )


I recommend the FAQ in Alt.graphics.pixutils especially. 


Also, ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/misc contains an archive of various sound and
graphics file formats ( or pointers on where to get more info, if on-line
documents were not available. If you have something that's not on their
list, please contribute to this repository. Someone once made wonderful
PostScript chart of PBMPlus conversion capabilities that I have hanging
on my wall. I don't know where I got the original, but it's a great guide 
to "can I get from X to Y format?" )


- Steve Majewski    /    sdm7g@Virginia.EDU    /    UVA Physiology 


[ P.S.
 I would NOT mind seeing some image processing and scientific applications
 oriented discussion of image file formats in this group, especially as it
 relates to image archiving and retrieval, tagging and annotation of 
 experimental data, management of large image libraries, etc. 
 Most of the other groups above are only interested in "pretty" pictures. ]


dir ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/misc/formats.*

graphics.formats:
total 1796
-rw-r--r--  1 root     1            1569 Aug 18 02:07 .index
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       55935 Jun  9  1991 3DDXF.Hqx
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       60424 Jun  9  1991 CADformats.Hqx
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       81381 Jul 11  1991 DXF.ascii
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       14442 Jul 11  1991 DXF_example.c
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel      130528 Jun  9  1991 DXFformat.Hqx
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel         312 Jan 30  1991 README
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     11         280700 Jul 22 14:10 TIFF6.ps.Z
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       11723 Jun 26  1991 VICAR2.format
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        2206 Aug 10  1990 acr.nema.ptr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        2071 Mar 14  1991 brl-cad.bw.5
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        2203 Jan 20  1991 brl-cad.pix.5
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       16557 Feb 10  1991 ccitt.t4
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        2498 Aug 10  1990 cgm.info
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        1637 Aug 10  1990 facesaver.doc
drwxr-xr-x  2 2519     wheel         512 Apr 21 15:38 fits
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        7088 Mar 13  1991 fli.format
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     1          100506 Apr  5 12:33 format_grib
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     1           76749 Apr  5 12:33 format_on84
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       31426 Aug 10  1990 gif87a.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       83005 Aug 10  1990 gif89a.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        1579 Aug 10  1990 gks.ptr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel      106474 Feb 10  1991 grasp.doc
drwxr-xr-x  4 2519     wheel         512 Apr 21 15:37 hdf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        1193 Aug 10  1990 hpgl.ptr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       63217 Aug 10  1990 iff.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        1942 Jan 12  1991 iges.ptr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       10071 Aug 10  1990 img_files.spec
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     11          56713 Jun 30 08:10 jfif.doc.ps
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     11           5560 Jul 22 14:20 jpeg.ptr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        5246 Apr 11  1991 kodak_icc.format
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       45172 Aug 10  1990 lzw.and.gif.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        6666 Mar 13  1991 miff.format
drwxr-xr-x  2 2519     wheel         512 Apr 21 15:38 netcdf
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     1            8765 Feb 28 15:16 nff.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        7718 Aug 10  1990 nff.doc.old
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       59434 Aug 10  1990 off.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       20703 Aug 10  1990 pcx.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        6717 Aug 10  1990 pcx2.doc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel         741 Aug 10  1990 renderman.ptr
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        3068 Aug 10  1990 sun.rasterfile.doc
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     11         299622 Jul 22 14:17 targa.doc.ps
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     11          58120 Jul 22 14:17 targa.table.of.contents.ps
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel       23115 Aug 10  1990 turbo.silver.object.format
-rwxr-xr-x  1 2519     wheel        2980 Aug 10  1990 turbo.silver.rgb.format
drwxr-xr-x  2 2519     wheel         512 Apr 21 15:38 urt

sound.formats:
total 116
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     1             149 Apr 21 15:38 .index
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     wheel        2259 Nov  4  1991 Sun_NeXT.audio
-rw-r--r--  1 2519     1          104681 Jan 20  1992 aiff-c.9.26.91.ps.Z

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