HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dph1kg@durham.ac.uk (Karl Glazebrook)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Grey Scale to True colour
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:36:16 GMT
Reply-To: kgb@star.dur.ac.uk
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Durham

Can someone advise me of a good PD program which lets me take 2 or 3
grey scale images I already have and combine them into 1 true colour
image (assigning each image to red, blue and green componens). I really
want soemthing which can display on a SUN IPC running X windows or
SUNVIEW and would let me adjust the balance between the red green and
blue components interactively until I'm happy.

Ideally it would read FITS but I presume I could grab pbmplus or
something if necessary.

Thank you,

Karl Glazebrook

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From: egan@blkbox (Doug Egan)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: PCX to CLP converter????
Summary: Need PCX/GIF to CLP converter for Grasp...
Keywords: CLP GRASP GL
Date: 20 Aug 92 02:32:27 GMT
Organization: The Black Box BBS (713) 480-2686 V32/V42bis/HST

I am attemping to create some Grasp animations (gl) with my
Super VideoWindows card, that snaps PCX files. In order to
produce quality animations, I need to convert these files to
the PC Paint (.clp) format...

Anyone? Please HELP!!!!

Thanx,
      Doug g
From: jfox@hooksett.East.Sun.COM (John Fox - SunExpress IR)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Looking for a GL viewer for X-Windows.
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:38:36 GMT
Reply-To: jfox@hooksett.East.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: hooksett.east.sun.com

In article 394@cine88.cineca.it, marcello@deis20.cineca.it (Marcello Dalpasso) writes:
> You can try xviewgl, available via anonymous ftp at export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib
> and many other sites.
> 
> Bye
> -- 
> 	Marcello Dalpasso (e-mail: marcello@deis16.cineca.it)
> 	D.E.I.S. - Department of Electronics and Computer Science	
> 	Viale Risorgimento 2, I-40136 Bologna, Italy			
> 	Phone: +39-51-644-3015 (fax: +39-51-644-3073)


I've yet to make a successful attempt to grab something via ftp. Can someone
explain how this is done, and what alternatives are available if my local
environment doesnt allow it?


Thanks,
John
From: cm5h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad Ray McDaniel)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Aldus Freehand filter needed
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:37:13 GMT
Organization: Freshman, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Adobe Photoshop will import EPS and save in a variety of formats
including PICT, TIFF, and GIF.

Also: On page 266, the user manual says that you can copy as a PICT with
embedded postscript if you hold down <option> while copying.

-chad
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: steve@keystone.arch.unsw.edu.au (Stephen Peter)
Subject: Re: PBMPLUS for DOS... located at...
Reply-To: steve@keystone.arch.unsw.edu.au
Organization: Faculty of Architecture, University of New South Wales
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 22:09:24 GMT

In article 29174@infonode.ingr.com, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>pompa@hpsrad.enet.dec.com (Jeff Pompa) writes:
>
>>         For those  who  were  looking  for PBMPLUS ported to DOS, it is
>>         at...
>
>>         garbo.uwasa.fi   
>
>>         in  pc/graphics 
>
>>         called pbmplus.zoo
>
>I looked at this file.  It doesn't appear to contain the entire packaged.
>There are only a few exe's all p??merge.exe.
>
RTFM

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From: pompa@hpsrad.enet.dec.com (Jeff Pompa)
Subject: PBMPLUS for DOS... located at...
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 18 AUG 92 14:33:47    

         For those  who  were  looking  for PBMPLUS ported to DOS, it is
         at...

         garbo.uwasa.fi   

         in  pc/graphics 

         called pbmplus.zoo

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From: gzc@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (G. Coulter,office,extension,homephone)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Amiga IFF > Sun
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:39:15 GMT
Reply-To: gzc@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK

I am interested in displaying images produced by Real3D on a Sun workstation
The image file formats are Amiga (HAM, Standard IFF, IFF24 & TARGA 24 bit).
Another option would be a utility that would convert on of these to a format
which can be read by a utility such as XV. I have been told that a utility 
called PBMPLUS will do some or all of the above.............................


Can any one please help me !!!!!!!


Relpy to g.coulter@uk.ac.daresbury
From: streb@ee.rochester.edu (Chuck S.)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: GL - assem -desembler?
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:16:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science

There exist a file call pdgrasp.zip that works for grasp upto and
including EGA screens. What about VGA and SVGA what file covers
this mode of operation. avove file date 1988ish.
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: mitterma@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de (Andreas Mittermayr)
Subject: Color-quantisation
Keywords: Color
Organization: University of Passau, Germany
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:32:48 GMT

Hello all,

can anybody tell me where to get information, algorithms, descriptions about
color-quantisation or about reduction of color-palettes ?

looking forward to your answer,

	Greetings
				Andreas!
From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: 24 bit image on root?
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:04:03 GMT
Reply-To: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK

In article <RATINOX.92Aug11220003@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> ratinox@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu writes:

>If I'm not mistaken, X11 windows, including the root window, are capable of
>displaying only 256 colors at any given time. Each window can have it's own
>colormap, but when you cycle window selections the colormap changes and you
>see the colors in the other windows rainbow.

That is only true on 8 bit servers. 24 bit servers can display 24 bit
or 8 bit windows. The DECstation 5000 can support a 24 bit display, as
can other workstations from other maunufacturers.


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From: abh@genesis.nred.ma.us (Andrew Hudson)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Tiff-2.4 under DOS?
Date: 16 Aug 92 17:26:16 GMT
Organization: Genesis Public Access Minix  +1 508 664 0149

In article <1992Aug15.201712.22852@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
>In article <9208147846@genesis.nred.ma.us> abh@genesis.nred.ma.us (Andrew Hudson) writes:
>>There is also the problem that 386 ints are short. Another common problem. 
>>Blech!
>
>I don't want to interrupt you in the middle of your DOS (or is it Intel) 
>bashing, but I do feel the need to break in when you make an error. There 
>is nothing about the 386 that forces ints to be short. Quite the opposite, 
>registers are indeed 32 bits wide. Every 386 specific C compiler that I 
>know of gerenrates 32 bit ints. 
>
>Andrew, you made this statement, can you think of one that doesn't? 
>
>Michael
>

Although all 386 C compilers can generate long ints that are 32-bits,
an 'int' under 386 compilers is only 16-bits until you cast it to
long. 

So the problem is a porting issue not an MS-DOS/386 flame as you thought
it was. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: borders@ms.uky.edu (Johnny Borders)
Subject: Re: Aldus Freehand filter needed
    <ceWHstC00WBN82sIpR@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:03:14 GMT
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences

cm5h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Chad Ray McDaniel) writes:

>Adobe Photoshop will import EPS and save in a variety of formats
>including PICT, TIFF, and GIF.

>Also: On page 266, the user manual says that you can copy as a PICT with
>embedded postscript if you hold down <option> while copying.

I recommend NOT using Photshop for dealing with EPS, since it just writes
a PS bitmap, so it's not the same going out as it is coming in, if it 
were EPS from Illustrator or Freehand, for instance.
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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: mcaldwel@netcom.com (Michael Caldwell)
Subject: Re: PBMPLUS for DOS... located at...
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 20:39:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug19.042752.6157@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>pompa@hpsrad.enet.dec.com (Jeff Pompa) writes:
>
>>         There should be instructions with the  package.    If  you want
>>         PPMTOGIF.EXE  you just rename/copy PPMMERGE.EXE to PPMTOGIF.EXE
>>         and  presto!  you have PPMTOGIF.EXE.  Each  P??MERGE.EXE  is  a
>>         collection of  EXEs.    Rename/copy  PNMMERGE.EXE to PNMCAT.EXE
>>         and...  you get the idea.  Saves tons'o disk space !!!
>
>I don't have the latest zoo on my unix box so I couldn't extract the docs
>and look at them.  All I could do was look at the directory of the
>archive.  I could not believe that you could have all of pbmplus in
>less than 400K of executables.  Pbmplus takes up several megabytes
>on my risc box.  I forgot how much smaller the 80x86 executables
>are.
>
>------------
>Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
>Intergraph Corporation                                  
>bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum

If you built the pbmplus package yourself you should have specified the
merge option.  This puts all the functionality of pbmplus into four
executables and then creates links for each of the functions.  When the
merged executable executes argv [0] is the link name and knows what
function to do.  This is the idea behind the DOS merged exes.  However,
DOS doesn't have links so you have to actually rename the file before you
execute it.  I've just ported pbmplus to OS/2 2.0.  I put most of the
functionality and the C run time library into 6 dll files.  Then I have a
small exe for each of the functions.  This only takes 1.7MB of disk space.
In case your interested the archive is pbmplus5.zoo at hobbes.nmsu.edu in
/pub/downloads.

Michael
From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Is alchemy available for unix?
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:38:38 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


880518l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Nelson Langille) writes:

>Is alchemy (just the conversion part, not the viewer) available for unix?

	Yes.  Sun3, Sun4, RS/6000, etc.

	hsi@netcom.com
	(408) 358-1292
	(408) 356-3297 (BBS)

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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
eliaz
From: eliaz@techunix.technion.ac.il (Amir Eliaz)
Subject: Looking for a GL viewer for X-Windows.
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:32:35 GMT

Where can I find a GL viewer for X-Windows ?
Thanx.
eliaz@csc.cs.technion.ac.il
From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Tiff-2.4 under DOS?
Date: 15 Aug 92 20:17:12 GMT
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University

In article <9208147846@genesis.nred.ma.us> abh@genesis.nred.ma.us (Andrew Hudson) writes:
>There is also the problem that 386 ints are short. Another common problem. 
>Blech!

I don't want to interrupt you in the middle of your DOS (or is it Intel) 
bashing, but I do feel the need to break in when you make an error. There 
is nothing about the 386 that forces ints to be short. Quite the opposite, 
registers are indeed 32 bits wide. Every 386 specific C compiler that I 
know of gerenrates 32 bit ints. 

Andrew, you made this statement, can you think of one that doesn't? 

Michael

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From: malik@wilbur.psu.edu (Sohail Malik)
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
Subject: Re: Tiff-2.4 under DOS?
Date: 23 Aug 92 14:56:40 GMT
Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing

abh@genesis.nred.ma.us (Andrew Hudson) writes:
> [...]
>Although all 386 C compilers can generate long ints that are 32-bits,
>an 'int' under 386 compilers is only 16-bits until you cast it to
>long. 

Saying 386 C compilers is not specific enough.  Other operating systems
run on 386's and some of their C compilers are quite proficient at
generating code based on the assumption that ints are 32 bits wide (e.g,
OS/2 2.0's C Set/2 development system and the native compilers on the
Unix variants).

As you might imagine, this comes in terribly handy when porting code
that runs on Unix systems because a lot of that code is fraught with
the assumptions that ints are 32 bits.  

Nowadays, some authors are getting better by using typedefs (so that 'int' 
can be changed to 'short' in one place) and coding checks for sizes of 
types before assuming anything.  These coding techniques help until you
hit the system call interface, of course; for that the best you can hope
for is well-designed code that isolates OS calls in a few places so you
can deal with them there instead of modifying calls alls over the place.

Thinking portably,

-Sohail
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils
From: heitke@tellabs.com (Steve Heitke)
Subject: Re: Archive of Extensions?
Keywords: bmp ppm
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:17:58 GMT

>>>>>> "JE" == John Ellenberger <ellenberger@tle.enet.dec.com> writes:
>
>JE> ooops...I meant ".bmp" not ".wav"   Hey--it was early in the morning.
>
>.bmp is a MeSsy-Windoze bitmap file; I don't know if Jef (or anyone else)
>has written a bmp to portable converter yet.

I have the "C" source for bmp2ppm, I don't recall who authored it so I can't
give credit where it's due.  It works for converting most BMP files but it 
has complained several times about the image not being the correct size(?) 
and the conversion fails.  I guess I could repost it if it's OK with all the
concerned parties, I wouldn't want to step on any toes. :-)

-Steve

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Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: sean@sdg.dra.com
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: SSN as loan account number
Date: 14 Aug 92 01:58:46 CDT
Organization: Data Research Associates, St. Louis MO

In article <1992Aug14.031319.8828@colorado.edu>, bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles) writes:
> In article <Bss4px.4rC@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>I hear from former students that here they went from using non-SSN
>>based sequential or random numbers to the SSN scheme.  What could they
>>have been thinking?
> 
> I took a graduate database course last spring, and the professor pointed
> out that SSNs are really useful as unique keys....  A little later we had
> a 20-minute free block where we discussed moral and ethical issues 
> associated with databases, but with the other topics it wasn't possible
> to say much more than "see the Usenet groups alt.privacy, comp.risks, etc."

Huh?  I would wonder about this professor.  SSNs are really lousy as
unique keys.

  1.  Social Security Numbers aren't unique
  2.  Not everyone has a SSN
  3,  Some people have more than one SSN
  4.  People change or can be assigned a new SSN

So using SSN as a unique key in your database is extremely poor design, and
you don't even need to get into moral or ethical issues to figure that out.
If you use SSN as a key in your database, it should be an alternate method
of identifying a record (with NULL, and duplicate values allowed).

This was a graduate level database course?
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Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Re: So, why don't big places do this? (was: Re: SSN as loan account number)
Reply-To: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:07:34 GMT

bu571@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Wes Perkhiser) writes:
>The main reason this is not feasible is because the people who 
>work for corporation XYZ have some turnover.  Assuming you need to 
>keep the records for a while, you can't re-issue the old numbers.  
>You could randomize it when you first start using the numbers, 
>but anyone hired after that will have to be given the next
>available number (unless you want to really complicate the 
>human factors aspects.)

So, the answer here would be to just keep assigning new sequential
numbers until the record of an old employee is purged (and thus their
ID number is made available).  Or just trash the old employee's ID
number altogether.

Well, based on some responses that say that large companies and some
universities actually do assign sequential numbers, I'd say it's just
UIUC that's going backwards instead of forwards.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
-- No NeXTmail please
From: memco@cns.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Help Needed to Find PGPv2
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:18:40 GMT
Reply-To: memco@cns.nyu.edu
Organization: New York University

The latest issue of Boardwatch magazine says that version
2 of PGP has been released and is at kauri.vuw.ac.nz.
I can't find the IP # of this site to get it.
If anyone knows it or another site with the latest version,
please e-mail me.

Thanks.

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                                      Not too different from you or me
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: atkeson@spot.Colorado.EDU (L. Atkeson)
Subject: SCAN and your credit
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:46:07 GMT

	SCAN (Shared  Check Authorization Network)
is an information (disinformation?) data service 
which is used by dept stores to determine whether or not a
customer is trustworthy enough to write a check.  Well, recently 
this little machine turned me down.  This was quite a surpise to
me as I've never written a bad check anywhere.  The dept story
gave me a card with SCAN's telephone number and address.  I 
immediately called them and found out that my driver's license 
written at a Marshall's store in Colorado Springs in March of 1991.
I explained to the employee that this was impossible because I 
had received this driver's license number in July of 1992 when I
went for my renewal.  In Colorado you receive an entire new licnese
and license number when youl old one expires.  He then informed me
went for my renewal.  In Colorado you receive an entire new license
I'd have to contact Marshall's in MASS about this problem.


	I believe it's absolutely wrong for a company 
individuals.  Has this ever happened to anyone else wrongly?
What are my legal rights?  Is this action considered slander or 
libel by state or federal law?  What can I expect from Marshalls?
Somehow I think this is going to waste a lot of my personal time 
and energy and money (phone bills, photocopying, etc) and I never
should have had to deal with this.  I'm considering billing Marshalls
for my time what's do you think their reaction will be?

Thanks in advance,

Lonna
From: phantom@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (James Choi)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
Subject: Re: SSN as loan account number
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:18:46 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

In article <1992Aug18.200507.1114@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> marlow@egr.msu.edu (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>assumed his identity fraudulently.  Fortunately the criminal was caught,
>but the whole idea of companies selling private data on peole scares the
>shit out of me.  Basically, you can be denied: Health Inssurance, Credit,
>Loans, Housing, Employment, etc... because of wrongfull or inaccurate info
>collected & stored in a data base used by a credit agency or bussines.

Who are these companies that sell data?  Whom do they sell it to?  Can I
buy it?  How?  I just subscribed to this group and I seem to have missed
many basic assumptions and information.  Is there a FAQ?

James Choi
Newsgroups: alt.privacy
From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Subject: Re: Dean Witter invents a "second wife" for me
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 13:38:02 GMT

# BTW, I'm not sure Smith is really the MOST common name EVERYWHERE --

ISTM that the most common name in the world is:
	Wang

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