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- From: jsm@shade.Princeton.EDU (John Scott McCauley Jr.)
- Subject: Re: Another 00n9 track plan
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.184356.29341@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <8223@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:43:56 GMT
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- In article <8223@skye.ed.ac.uk> ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
- >This is the last of my set of three, but if I draw any more interesting
- >plans I'll be back. I've had mail from some people who cannot view this
- >picture with xfig. I can produce a postscript version on request, or at
- >a pinch a uuencoded, compressed bit map. To convert this to `real' Post
- >Script, filter it through f2ps(1).
- >
-
- These look great! I hope many more people post such drawings! I do like the
- FIG format as it can be edited under Xwindows and SunView and printed out
- on a variety of printers. The protocol and source code is public domain so
- porting to non-unix systems is possible.
-
- I found a few problems in the transmission of a FIG file over news, however.
-
- 1) News here gobbles up control characters. So edit lines that display text
- to add a control-A (^A) at the end of the text. For example, the line
-
- 4 0 0 12 0 -1 0 0.000 1 9 20 645 89 Pier(newline)
-
- should become
-
- 4 0 0 12 0 -1 0 0.000 1 9 20 645 89 Pier(control-A)(newline)
-
- 2) News has problems with long lines. The following sequence near the bottom
- was sent as two lines and had to be joined into one line to make a
- sensible drawing:
- Line 1
- 0.000 0.000 424.483 147.902 420.733 149.902 410.875 153.863 393.423 158.
- 360 377.630 161.850 357.578 165.309 337.558 166.922 310.391 166.000 289.660 166.
- 000 267.340 166.000 231.118 166.000 166.882 166.000 132.710 166.000 115.290 166.
- 000 103.444 166.000 9
- Line 2
- 2.556 166.000 83.672 166.000 73.333 165.840 62.826 166.228 48.174 167.772 37.553
- 168.164 31.053 168.164 0.000 0.000
-
- (I think 92.556 is the right coordinate.)
-
- The poor people who have news systems that wrap at 80 characters might
- have a lot of fun making sense of the result.
-
- So, how about sending fig files uuencoded? Longer files could be compressed
- first, but fig files are usually efficient already.
-
- Scott
-