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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: pbmplus on abcfd20 TOO LARGE!!!
Message-ID: <36025@cup.portal.com>
Date: 17 Nov 90 09:55:14 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.033236.7805@nas.nasa.gov>
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gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez) in
<1990Nov17.033236.7805@nas.nasa.gov> writes:

	I've been trying to get the pbmplus utilities off of abcfd20, but the
	thing is over 900K!!!  THIS DOES NOT FIT ON AN 800/720K DISKETTE!!!

I don't want to sound callous, but if you cannot handle a 900K archive file,
how do you expect to process some of the 1MB+ pictures?  Some that I process
are 1024x1024x8 (1MB) and larger ones are possible.

If you ftp'd the file (or used the Bitnet server), from what machine did you
initiate the request?  If it was a UNIX box you used, you should be able to
break up the archive file there for transfer to your Amiga.

The copy of pbmplus I snarfed from ftp.ee.lbl.gov (the original by Jef
Poskanzer) is quite a bit smaller per:

	CLI6> ls -l sys5:pbmplus
	----ar-e- 89-12-05 02:49:51  551   278222 pbmplus.tar.Z
	Dirs:0    Files:1    Blocks:551   Bytes:278222  

so I will admit you have a valid gripe unless the one at adcdf20.larc.nasa.gov
includes executables and wasn't compressed (e.g. archived) properly.

And though I realize the following statement won't endear me to those who are
on a budget, it's my firm belief that the lack of a hard disk for the Amiga
when it was introduced in 1985 didn't help matters then, and the lack of a HD
on one's Amiga NOW, in 1990, renders it a crippled system.

For years, the Amiga was a joke and an oddity; consider:

	floppy drives as the primary mass storage medium, and

	(typically) more RAM than mass storage.

Do yourself a favor and get a HD for your Amiga; only 36 more shopping days
until Christmas!

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]