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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space,comp.graphics
Subject: Posting of space images (software)
Message-ID: <4378@eos.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 18:46:38 GMT
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Followup-To: sci.space
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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NASA does not officially post images to the net for a variety of
reasons, but I just got a note from a couple of net readers who do not run
on any typically nice graphics hardware asking that if you do post any kind
of ASCII encoded image, that you post the software to convert or at least
tell the format you are using up front. This goes for anything from
PostScript(tm), GIF, uuencode (oops Unix source code...), etc. Okay,
so at least tell what type of format you are using.  Don't flame
me, I'm only forwarding the request (one running EBCDIC hardware).
Follows up to sci.space because neither astro nor graphics gets gatewayed
to the Internet.

Another gross generalization from

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