On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
> > > Hmm - I'd like it better, if it would read only P?M and use ppmtools to
> > > convert any other format as required.
>
> > I'd prefer PNG myself.
>
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> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19408 Mar 21 1999 /usr/bin/djpeg
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> > And I can't afford the 100Megs it takes to store the ppmtools.
>
> You only need to install those you need ...
Since when? You always have to compile everything.
Maybe that should be something that gets attacked GGI-style. Make a nice
config script and controllable install of ppmtools :)
Be handy. Especially with people with -very- little HD space and need
only of one or two tools. (this is why I'm annoyed with ppmtools... I
rarely have space to play with them.... or at least not 'til now :)
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> > (ie: network connections [okay poor example], messaging systems *giggle*,
> > WWW connections.... preformatted files ie embedded WWW or gzipped... :)
>
> These can all be trivially handled by simple filters using pipes, which is
> very very simple using popen. It's the power of unix to be able to pipe
> stuff around.
I don't know the difference between using FILE* and file handles. I
always use file handles myself as I'm frequently multitasking and passing
things like sockets and the like around.
Oh, and there should be a way to pass FILE* or file-handles (preferably
file-handles) to file-target in GGI. That way, the program can send data
to it invisibly :)
Just because FILE* can't talk to databases or 64bit files or embedded WWW
pages or .... doesn't mean it can't be used :)
Also, NO TEMPORARY FILES UNLESS THE CALLING PROGRAM SETS THEM UP.
YOU try playing with an uncompressed high-resolution scan > 80 megabytes
in size. Then watching subprograms create temporary copies.
VERY pet peeve.
(even worse when working with movies... when the results compressed are >
2 gigabytes. *ow*)
Anyways, that's all. This is the... uh... 10th or so time I've written
this message and I'm getting a little tired of pine losing it on me.
*sigh*
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
