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- From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
- Subject: Re: Kodak Photo CD
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.141404.2878@alf.uib.no>
- Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
- References: <1992Nov5.171420.18531@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Nov6.095921.19610@alf.uib.no> <1992Nov7.044436.20131@seas.smu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 14:14:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov7.044436.20131@seas.smu.edu> dleon@seas.smu.edu (David Leon) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.095921.19610@alf.uib.no> edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov5.171420.18531@news.acns.nwu.edu> garyc@lenny.acns.nwu.edu writes:
- >>>In article <1992Nov5.074234.6889@ulrik.uio.no> stein@sionext.uio.no (Stein
- >>>Onsrud) writes:
- >>
- >>Regarding software - I just received in the mail a PhotoCD reader
- >>App, but until my machine is up (about a week, I hope) I won't
- >>be able to test it. Sorry :-(
- >>
- >>Regards,
- >>Thor
- >>NorNeXT user group leader
- >>edmtl@fiol.uib.no (NeXTmail O.K.)
- >>edmtl@alf.uib.no (did you hit 'r'? Then use ASCII mail...)
- >>
- >>
- >
- >Are you referring to the current batch of existing CDROM drives or are you
- >referring to a new/unreleased CDROM drive? Also, where did you find a
-
- Current batch. At least the one I have is _supposed_ to work...
- I should be up NeXT week (ordered the drive today :-), I'll let everyone know.
-
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- >photoCDreader? If the NeXT CDROM dirve that I received a month or two ago
- >can do PhotoCDs, then that would be the a well deserved peice of good news.
-
- According to my NeXTrep, that is so. Do you have any PhotoCD's to test it on?
-
- >
- >David
- >dleon@seas.smu.edu
- >
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- The program I have is NOT a Reader.app (sorry for the mix up), it merely
- converts PhotoCD images to portable pixmap format (pbm plus util format)
- so you can use it in other things (can you say tiff? :-)
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- It is freely distributeable but not PD. It is called hpcdtoppm.
-
- Regards,
- Thor
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