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From: ceej@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris J Hillery)
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Subject: Re: IFF picture viewers ...
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Date: 30 Aug 90 04:51:23 GMT
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rang@ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang) writes:

>Just a quick question ....
>	I know that there are GIF viewers that will switch to interlace and
>compress a picture horizontally to try to show as much of the picture.  Are
>there any IFF viewers that can do the same, particularly the horizontal
>compression?

Again, I'll briefly plug Mostra, as far as I know THE best IFF pic displayer
for the Amiga (and shareware, at that!). It will allow you to set any screen
attributes you like with command line options, so you can at least compress
pictures vertically by forcing interlace (assuming they weren't laced before).
As for horizontal, no, I don't know any IFF displayers which will do that,
and it would be a real nice feature. How 'bout it, someone?

>                                        Roger P. Ang (rang@ICS.UCI.EDU)
>Irvine? Where's Irvine?                 a poor Grad student at the
>In the heart of the Orange Curtain.     Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
>Oh no! The poor fool.                   Univ. of California, Irvine.