home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Ian & Stuart's Australian Mac: Not for Sale
/
Another.not.for.sale (Australia).iso
/
hold me in your arms
/
clarinet
/
bizarro
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-09-11
|
2KB
|
30 lines
Bizarro is a popular comic panel from artist Dan Piraro. Each day
it provides an amusing and ironic comic scene we hope you will enjoy.
We deliver these panels as a GIF file approximately 400 by 480
pixels in size, encoded to text in the MIME format. MIME is
a new standard for multipurpose E-mail and netnews, and we
believe it should replace uuencoding as the way to send GIFs and
other binaries over the net. Almost all the popular newsreading
and E-mail packages have support for MIME in their latest versions.
If you are running an old version it is probably time to upgrade.
Mostly they simply pass the MIME messages to an external processing
program. Read the "mime.faq" file in
ftp.clarinet.com:help/graphics/mime.faq for information on such software.
The height of 480 pixels assures that almost everybody has a display that
can handle Bizarro, and it also keeps the image file size down. You need
to be able to display 8 shades of gray to get the proper effect.
If you don't have MIME you can still use a MIME decoder, or even a
"base64" decoder (MIME's alternative to uuencoding) on the raw
text file, to extract a GIF binary. Then you can run any GIF viewer
on it.
A simple base64 decoder that can be used to decode Bizarro and other
ClariNet graphic features can be found as
ftp.clarinet.com:sources/encdec.c-1.1.
With the Dilbert comic strip, we provide both the MIME format and
a uuencoding of the GIF. However, we are not providing a uuencoding
with Bizarro. The images are larger, and doubling the si