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- From: ra_novy@dal.mobil.com (Robert A. Novy)
- Subject: World Maps Available?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.215530.2486@mobil.com>
- Sender: news@mobil.com
- Organization: Mobil E&P Technical Center
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:55:30 GMT
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- I've been hunting on the sumex and umich archives for PICT or EPS world maps.
- Just an outline of the continents would be fine; I don't really need all or
- most of the countries' borders drawn in.
-
- From the umich archive, I downloaded the files
- 1. mac/graphics/draw/worldmap.pit.hqx
- 2. mac/graphics/eps/maps.cpt.hqx
-
- I believe the 'pit' extension means PackIt, but I haven't been able to unpack
- file #1. From sumex, I downloaded packit3-13.hqx, but it promptly bombs when I
- try to run it. Perhaps it's not System-7 compatible. The versions of PackIt on
- umich are a couple of years old, and they bomb, too. So what else can I try?
-
- As for the files in #2, they decompress as EPS files, but they simply appear as
- an X in a box when I import them into Persuasion 2.0. They do print OK, but I
- need to see them on the screen in order to add annotations.
-
- So does anyone know of a world map that can be downloaded and manipulated on
- the screen?
-
- Bob Novy
- ra_novy@dal.mobil.com
- Dallas, TX
-
- "So, what you're telling me, Percy, is that something you have never seen is
- slightly less blue than something else you have never seen."
- The Black Adder
-