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From: gutierrez@noc.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: pbmplus on abcfd20 TOO LARGE!!!
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Date: 24 Nov 90 05:44:12 GMT
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thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
> 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.

Sorry Thad, I should'a explained how I transport my files...

I work at NASA-Ames, and my Amy is at home (yes, I have an HD...as a matter
of fact, a Quantum and a Syquest).  So, in order to transfer the files
from work to home, I ftp them directly onto a Grid portable (Messy-DOS
laptop), the take the floppy home and transfer them to my Amy with Cross-Dos.
Very Cheap ... much less than sitting on the modem (and a bad line most of
the time on top of that!) and racking up toll charges.  So, I always have
a box of 3 1/2" floppies here at work.

The archive on abcfd20 apparently contains everything in one large archive,
source, binaries, docs, etc.  Not Nice :-(  Hence, the problem with
ftp'ing it onto the floppy directly.

Oh yes ... I have 8 meg of memory on my Amy.  Is that going to be enough
for the program?  :-) ;-) :-)

From: lar@pc.usl.edu (Robert, Lane A.)
>Already done.  FTP it from pc.usl.edu [130.70.40.3] in
>/pub/amiga/pbmplus/{bin,doc,src} where you'll find each binary and doc
>file separate so you can download only the ones you're interested in.
>As usual, please restrict your connections to nights and weekends.

Thanks!  I appreciate it!

   Robert Gutierrez