Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Flip Pictures Sideways
Message-ID: <2831@becker.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 90 23:20:27 GMT
References: <9001190437.AA25675@astro.psu.edu> <1068@madnix.UUCP> <25bbd145:4037.5comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP> <6038@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <6038@netcom.UUCP> barry@netcom.UUCP (Kenn Barry) writes:
|[...]
|	Well... I converted FBM for the Amiga. Yes, the code-changes
|were minimal, but there was a problem. FBM is a memory-hog. It politely
|refuses to touch any really large image on my 1.5 meg Amiga because it
|can't malloc the memory.
|
|	When I got hold of PBMPLUS I made a brief attempt to port it.
|Same problem, but worse - it wouldn't touch even small images without
|bailing, for lack of memory. Both these packages, being written for
|UN*X, expect virtual memory to be available, and blithely request *huge*
|buffers for images. If you've got multi-megabytes of core in your Amiga,
|do go for it - the code-changes really are minimal, and the packages
|well worth porting. Otherwise, anybody wanna volunteer to rewrite these
|to a streamed form, reading/converting/writing one scanline at a time
|wherever that's feasible?

	Would you be willing to post or otherwise
	make available the changes needed to port
	these 2 packages in their current form?

Thanks,
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