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- From: wai@unixg.ubc.ca (David Wai)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
- Subject: Re: Map gifs.
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:27:30 GMT
- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <1993Jan20.160210.26014@infodev.cam.ac.uk> dkf11@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
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- [stuff about scanning maps/cover art]
-
- >If I was going to do a proper job of this, I would need to put them
- >all in a ftp site somewhere. Does anyone know a good place?
- >
- >Also, do you prefer gifs or jpegs? Both are equally easy (as the
- >scanner produces tiffs and I am not going to post those! :), but I
- >would prefer to post jpegs as they are much smaller, and fit in fewer
- >posts.
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- Yes, JPEGs are smaller, but GIF is a much more command standard. I
- would greatly prefer GIF format. As to an FTP site, I wanted to look
- for one but don't have the time. Suggestion: trying 'grep'ing for
- "sf" in an anonymous FTP site list.
-
- -- David Wai
-