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From: jh34607@suntc.UUCP (john howell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: GIF file converter
Summary: Isn't NeWS different from the Sun Raster File Format?
Message-ID: <128@suntc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 89 19:04:01 GMT
References: <125@suntc.UUCP> <8909292050.aa11265@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <771@odin.SGI.COM>
Organization: Deere & Co. Technical Center, Moline,IL
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In article <771@odin.SGI.COM>, msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
> In article <125@suntc.UUCP>, jh34607@suntc.UUCP (john howell) writes: 
> > Fantastic!!  Now .. does anyone have a "tosun" program to move Iris
> > imagefiles to a Sun Rasterfile format?
> 
> It's in 4Dgifts, called tonews.
> 
> --
> From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
> msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc
> "There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
> a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."

I am aware that "tonews" exists, but I want to make Sun raster files
that can be used on pre-NeWS suns (like pretty much all of them).  Isn't
the native Sun raster image file format a different beast than NeWS?