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From: popec@freeside.com (PopeC)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Database access, how?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 20:02:18 CST
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

adavies@vax.path.ox.ac.uk (Anthony Davies) writes:

> In article <ZyygwB3w165w@freeside.com>, popec@freeside.com (PopeC) writes:
> > nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
> > There are basically three big cedit bureaus, is my understanding.  And 
> > you can indeed write them and ask for a copy of your credit data.  
> 
> Does this also apply to the UK?
> 
> /sig


I don't know what the situation in Britain is.  Do they have  Better 
Business Bureaus there?  I guess you could always try the Library too.
  And I won't even try to guess at the status of the laws over there on 
credit ratings and your right to know what your report says about you.


Sorry i couldn't help.


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Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
Organization: SoundSoftware, Bellevue, WA, USA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:42:17 GMT

Gary Benson writes
| To me the issue is very clear: 
| 
| PRIVATE line should be permitted to have all incoming callers identified,
| preferably by caller's name, but if not, then software can certainly be
| obtained for my home computer that will do a quick look-up.
| 
| BUSINESS NUMBERS, though must NEVER be permitted to learn the identity of
| their callers, lest every phone call be logged resulting in even more abuse
| of citizen's right to privacy as lists of calls are bought and sold.

When you call my BUSINESS, you'll be calling my PRIVATE line.  Hard to enforce  
your policies (but I'm not saying I don't like them).  Only the illegal  
businesses will get your phone number if you trust the system.

No matter what develops from this CNID mess, the real moral is: don't trust a  
system based on machines (phones).  CNID doesn't tell you who's calling, and  
there's never a guarantee that the FEDs aren't listening through a back door  
that they legislated into place.
-- 
Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting and Signal Processing Software
NeXTmail welcome	- NO EMAIL SOLICITATION without prior permission
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,sci.electronics
From: chelf@lunatix.uucp (Chad Helfenberger)
Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
Organization: Lexington Public Access Unix. -KY- (606) 255-9121
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:01:56 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.010058.15475@cc.gatech.edu> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>It's finally time for me to jump in here. Some of my own ideas are present.
>
>>>>The only problem I see with the kill list idea is that most businesses have 
>>>>multiple phone lines, and I'm pretty sure (not certain) that the kill list 
>>>>will have a limited memory.
>
>Memory is not a problem. It's one of the cheapest parts of a system like this.
>Even a half a meg is not an unreasonable expectation.
>
>As for multiple phone lines it might be reasonable to exclude an entire area
>code + prefix. That'll usually get all the business lines. 

Are you *truly* serious about the excluding an entire area code + prefix?  I 
laughed so hard when I read that I thought it must be a joke, however, 
reading the rest of your message, I assume you ARE serious.  Why would you 
want to continously make a list bigger and bigger, when you can easily just 
pick up the phone, listen, and if it is a telemarketer, you say, 'Do NOT 
call me EVER again.'  Then hang up.  Simple as that.  No need to buy a box, 
no need to shell out 40 bucks for another meg of RAM every week.


[part about not putting money on telemarketers deleted]
>
>Guess what: THEY'RE NOT! They'll take advantage of that in a minute. Imagine
>what would happen is a really important or emergency call came through when
>you're not home. The best you can expect is an answering machine to take the
>message. Emergency personel would have to get your number from somewhere if
>a family member were in trouble (i.e. wallet, purse, ID bracelet). Those items
>are on the person so the emergency code could be written along with the phone
>number. What other truly emergency situations might arise?

Why make it harder on the EMS/Hospital?  Why can't you remove the 1984 
aspects of this altogether and forget adding millions of numbers to a kill 
list as they are placed?  All the reasons you stated for using the emergency 
ID sequence (or whatever you want to call it) are very good arguments 
against CNID.


-- 
Chad Helfenberger
(chelf@lunatix.uucp) 
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: af530@yfn.ysu.edu (Peter Whitfield)
Subject: Re: Agrippa... the COMPLETE post
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:33:09 GMT


I know that Agrippa was released and Gibson called up Kroupa
and gave him permission to keep the text on MindVox, but I
am confused about what happened to "Agr1ppa" Kroupa's 
supposed parody of it?  Did it ever go out anywhere, or was
it pulled because he did it "out of respect to Gibson" or
what? 

Thanks!
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
From: Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca (Clayten Hamacher)
Subject: Re: Caller ID block?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:53:43 GMT

>BUT, if I had caller ID I could put them in a kill list after the first
>call and never have to deal with it again.   And furthermore, having caller
>ID log the numbers would give me better evidence against the offending
>repeat callers if I did decide to take action.

Haven't people caught on by now? Caller ID is NOT VALID IN COURT! The record
the switch keeps (atuomatically, and specifically if you key in the code
afyter the call) are the only things that do!

--

Clayten_Hamacher@Mindlink.bc.ca                 Land of the rising snow.
From: mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: floatation tanks
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:47:34 GMT
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

In article <1hnl9dINNanq@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> oly@emerson.physics.ubc.ca writes:

>		Does anyone have any info regarding floatation tanks, things  
>like construction, prefab units for sale, other peoples experiences etc.  
>Basically any info at all.

 If you mean Isolation Tanks, John Lilly's books are the ones to look at.
He invented them. _The Deep Self_ has plans and lots of basic information
but it might be out of print. Check a university library.

Wassail,
G.G.
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,sci.electronics
From: hee@cs.columbia.edu (Edward Hee)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,alt.binaries.pictures.d,alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.d
Subject: dcview20.zip -- ColorView for DOS JPEG Viewer posted
Keywords: jpeg jfif gif bmp viewer converter
Date: 26 Dec 92 21:18:33 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science


The latest version of ColorView for DOS, version 2.0, a fast JPEG/JFIF,
GIF, Windows BMP viewer/converter/editor has been posted as dcview20.zip
on alt.binaries.pictures.utilities.  VESA graphics drivers for
ColorView for DOS have also been posted as vesadriv.zip on the same
group.


		            ColorView for DOS
	  Copyright (c) 1992 Millennium Technologies Corporation
			   All Rights Reserved

       			       Version 2.0

ColorView is a color image viewer/converter/editor for the DOS environment.

ColorView supports reading and writing the following graphics file formats:
	o  JPEG (JFIF subset)
	o  GIF'87, GIF'89 including animations
	o  Windows BMP files (4, 8 and 24 bit, including 8 bit RLE)

ColorView provides: 
	o  Floyd-Steinberg dithering
	o  Heckbert color reduction
	o  Gamma correction, Hue, Saturation, and Brightness controls
	o  Sharpening, Smoothing, Embossing, Edge Tracing and other 
	   image filters
	o  Copy and Paste/Merge operations between all supported image formats
	o  New Image creation and text drawing functions
	o  Adjustable image Transparency Effects
	o  "Blue Screen" effects
	o  Image Rotation and Mirroring functions
	o  Intuitive graphical user interface, with or without a mouse
	o  Slideshow mode for uninterrupted image viewing
	o  Fast and extremely accurate Image Scaling for reducing and
	   enlarging pictures
	o  GIF Animation support
	o  Ability to switch graphics modes while viewing an image
	o  And much more!

ColorView will work with:
	o  Standard VGA 320x200 video mode
	o  8 bit, 256 color display boards with a VESA driver 
	o  15 bit, 32768 color display boards with a VESA driver
	o  16 bit, 65356 color display boards with a VESA driver
	o  24 bit color display boards with a VESA driver
	o  DOS 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
	o  500K or more of physical memory
		(expanded and extended memory will automatically be used)
	o  a hard disk (automatically used if not enough physical memory)
	o  80286, 80386-SX, 80386, 80486, Pentium processors
	o  Microsoft-compatible mouse

ColorView for DOS (CVIEW.EXE) will run on '286 processors and will
automatically take advantage of a '386 or better processor if one
is available. 

Enjoy!
From: chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Chris Brown )
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Zip and Zoo on Unix
Date: 29 Dec 92 12:13:02 GMT
Organization: The University of Liverpool
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi
  I got zip and unzip for unix from vab02.larc.nasa.gov
Chris

chris47@uxb.liv.ac.uk
From: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Microtek ScanMakers
Date: 29 Dec 1992 11:44:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Does anyone have any information about Microtek's new Scanmaker II and
IIXE 24-bit flatbed scanners and how they differ from the recently
discontinued Scanmaker 600Z? What are the differences between the II and
the IIXE? (There have been many articles about color scanners in the
various computer mags lately, covering the 600Z; however, the II and IIXE
seem to have been released very recently - early December - and they're
much cheaper).

How is the customized PhotoStyler software for the above, and how does
it compare to the real Aldus PhotoStyler? Is OCR software bundled with the
scanners?

Any information would be greatly appreciated...         Happy New Year!...

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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: phantom@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (James Choi)
Subject: TIFF unility for Borland C++ 3.1
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:06:51 GMT


I have gone through the FAQ lists, and scanned through the FTP sites.

The question is: Does anyone have a working source code for TIFF file
manipulation that will compile clean in Borland C++, and work?

All the source code available at different ftp sites have proper flags for
several Unix workstations only.

Thank you in advance.

James Choi
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: pbmplus (merged) on SGI
From: visser@n6batws1.itwol.bhp.com.au (Martin Visser)
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:25:39 +1000
Distribution: world


I've been using pbmplus tools very sucessfuly for quite a while. However I 
thought it was about time that investigate problems I have making the pxmmerge
programs. It appears that the Pbmplus.tmpl expects to have macros for
ObjectCompile and LinkFile defined in the ( I guess ) .cf files of imake. It
does not appear to be the case for Silicon Graphics Irix 4.0.1.

Does anyone know where the definitions of these macros should be or
what they are??


Regards, Martin

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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: GIF questions
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:20:44 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:

>When he FTP'd the GIFs to an archive site, they ended up as
>filename.GIF.bin files, meaning (I think) MacBinary II format.  I
>tried downloading one of these to a PC and using a GIF viewer, and
>it said the GIF format was invalid.

The files have a MacBinary header of 128 bytes which you will need to
remove (or, re-upload from the Mac with the MacBinary option turned
off).  Actually, I think that VPIC will read past a MacBinary header, if
present, which is an interesting feature.

>Basically what we want to do is convert TIFFs to GIFs and JPEG-JFIFs.

If you want to convert 24-bit to JFIF, then DO NOT convert to GIF first!
Read the 24-bit file directly.

>I have a second question as well.  When I download some GIFs to my PC,
>they end up not being able to be read in correctly (using Fractint or
>a regular GIF viewer), resulting in a very skinny squashed version of
>the image at the top...

The GIF files are stored in interlaced format; get a better GIF viewer
(such as VPIC) and this should go away.  Or get the Mac to stop putting
them in interlaced GIF format.

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#define  TRUE   0  |
#define  FALSE  1  |  "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend
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From: chinhsu@girtab.usc.edu (Chin-Chi Hsu)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: ImgFun 1.00 powerful gif, bmp, pcx, jpeg viewer
Date: 22 Dec 1992 02:40:34 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

Hi folks!
 
   I have uploaded the imgfun 1.00 to the simtl20( 192.88.110.20) site.
 
IFSE100.ZIP:  ImgFun 1.0. ImgFun is a  powerful image
compression  and enhancement  program for  computer  images.
 
1. Instant ZOOM images upto 4 times in width and height.
   Reverse   and   mirror images  instantly. Explore pleasures of viewing
   images in the awesome  eye catching SVGA modes up to 1024x 768!!
2. Adjust colors,  background, and cut area of color mapped images.
   These functions are performed ALL INSTANTLY.
3. Super fast JPEG compression and decompression for GIFs.
   REDUCE IMAGE FILES TO A FRACTION ONLY!!! SAVE YOURE DISK SPACE!!!
4. Convert between, GIF ,BMP, PCX, and JPG formats.
5. Smooth, sharpen and rescale color mapped images directly.
6. Lean and fast!! REQUIREMENTS: 286, VGA or SVGA
 
BEST GIF COMPANION!!! TRY TO BELIEVE IT!!!
produced by member of Assocation of ShareWare Professionals
 
Instructions for download from simtel
 
1. Type 'ftp 192.88.110.20' Enter
2. User ID: anonymous, Password: your email address
3. Type 'binary' Enter
4. Type 'cd pd1:<msdos.graphics>' Enter
5. Type 'get ifse100.zip' Enter
 
If you have any question, send email to
 
chinhsu@zsazsa.usc.edu
 
Thanks!
From: preiser@cancer.unm.edu (Doug Preiser)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Giff to Tiff
Date: 22 Dec 92 18:49:11 GMT
Reply-To: preiser@cancer.unm.edu
Organization: UNM Cancer Center

In article <1992Dec21.202108.4927@ccd.harris.com>, bwj@controls.ccd.harris.com (Bobby Johnson) writes:
>I'm looking for a .gif to .tif conversion program.  Really, all I need is the
>source.
>
>Archie came up with a blank, anybody have any suggestions?
>
>--
PBMPlus toolkit has giftoppm and ppmtotiff, but I've never used them.

>Bobby Johnson				Phone   (407) 242-4261
>Harris Controls Division		Fax     (407) 242-4268
>407 John Rhodes Blvd.			GEnie:   BJOHNSON44
>Melbourne, Fl.  32934			Internet bwj@ccd.harris.com

   Internet: preiser@cancer.unm.edu
   Bitnet:   preiser@unmb
From: streb@ee.rochester.edu (Chuck S.)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: ImgFun 1.00 powerful gif, bmp, pcx, jpeg viewer
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:48:17 GMT
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

I down loaded it checked it out, then erased it, It is a waste of time
to convert any image first you must load it (in minutes) slow
then things can be done. Its nice that everything is in one place
but other progs exist singlely that are MUCH faster and better!

chuck

SOrry about that

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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Way to get rid of HSI header in JPEGs
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:50:30 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:

>  A lot of the confusion stems from people thinking that JPEG==JFIF,
>which isn't true. JFIF is the most widely supported standard for file
>format, but it's obviously not the only one.

There are a lot of people in the graphics community who refer to files
compressed with the JPEG method as "JPEG files," which is what started
all this.  Which is easier:  To eradicate HSI files and/or rename them,
or to educate the populace into calling their files JFIF files instead
of JPEG?  :)

>  The JPEG output format from the Sun version of Alchemy (I have 1.4)
>appears to be JFIF, since xli and xv display it and djpeg understands
>it. I haven't used GIF2JPEG, but that may be a PC thing.

I believe that GIF2JPG is the only program that produces these files by
default.  Alchemy can produce them as well, but only if you ask it to
(--j option).

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#define  FALSE  1  |  "You have been recruited by the Star League to defend
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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: GIF questions
Date: 22 Dec 92 14:16:57 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <1992Dec20.032056.21576@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:
| A friend scanned in some photos on a Mac into TIFF format, then used
| Photoshop to convert the TIFFs to GIFs.  When he FTP'd (gee aren't
| these acronyms fun?) the GIFs to an archive site, they ended up as
| filename.GIF.bin files, meaning (I think) MacBinary II format.  I
| tried downloading one of these to a PC and using a GIF viewer, and
| it said the GIF format was invalid.

  Two suggestions: first, upload the tiff files, which hopefully are 24
bit instead of 8 bit GIF. Upload without the Mac resource head (if he's
using the NCSA ftp package, MacBinary OFF) or strip the first 128 bytes.
Then convert to JFIF (JPEG) which is smaller than GIF and preserves all
the color information.

  The multiple image problem is caused by a broken view which doesn't
support interlaced format (probably).
-- 
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From: sander@ronnie.and.nl (Sander Raaymakers)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: CLUT8 / CLUT7 CD/I format description ?!?!?
Summary: Need description of CD-I formats (headers etc)
Keywords: CLUT7 CLUT8 CD/I GRAPHICS CONVERSION
Date: 30 Dec 92 11:38:01 GMT
Organization: AND Software BV Rotterdam

Hi,

Our company is currently in the process of developing a CD/I title.
We've recently come across a little problem with the graphics conversion
tools we've bought. These utils contain a palette-reduction algorithm that
doesn't do a very good job on converting 24-bit images to 8-bit. We'd rather 
use PBMPlus or write my own conversion util to convert TARGA-files (.TGA)
to the proprietary CLUT7 / CLUT8 CD/I format.

As you could've guessed we're in need of the exact header-info (byte-level)
so we can use our own color-reduction scheme and get better results.

So, if anyone can tell me where I could find this information or point out
books that contain this info.... please DO NOT HESITATE TO ANSWER ;-)...

Followups to this newsgroup or (preferably) by E-Mail.... 

ThanX & Happy New Year...

	Allessandro
 
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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: kouhia@nic.funet.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
Subject: Re: ImgFun 1.00 powerful gif, bmp, pcx, jpeg viewer
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 19:25:03 GMT

In article <Bzo4rJ.7yx.2@cs.cmu.edu> tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
>chinhsu@girtab.usc.edu (Chin-Chi Hsu) writes:
>> 3. Super fast JPEG compression and decompression for GIFs.
>>    REDUCE IMAGE FILES TO A FRACTION ONLY!!! SAVE YOURE DISK SPACE!!!

Also, it should be made clear that you don't need convert
images to gif format before you are able to use jpeg format.

The above sentence just points out that the author is not
familiar with image formats.

The announce looked like advertisement (commercial), it is bad way
to present programs to readers who mainly are computer oriented
(programmers, CS students, etc.) anyway.

Why not give immediately critical announce where pros&cons
are discussed fully?

Juhana Kouhia
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Good Holidays&Xmas wish Juhana to all!!
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: andrew@srrc.gov.tw (Andrew Cheng)
Subject: Re: Hi there...I need an Mpeg viewer...
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)
  There is a MPEG decoder.
  The player is available via anonymous ftp from toe.cs.berkeley.edu
  (128.32.149.117) in /pub/multimedia/mpeg/mpeg-1.2.tar.Z
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:54:57 GMT
From: korczyns@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph Korczynski)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: HPGL -> CGM
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:07:55 GMT
Reply-To: korczyns@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph Korczynski)
Organization: Annapolis Detachment,CARDEROCKDIV,NSWC,Annapolis,MD

I am looking for a utility for MS-DOS or UNIX which will allow me to
convert HPGL files to CGM format so that I can import and edit them
in Harvard Graphics. I'm looking for something in the public domain.
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils