Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!bbn.com!cosell From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: calvin and hobbes bitmaps Message-ID: <61266@bbn.BBN.COM> Date: 2 Dec 90 13:19:03 GMT References: <1990Nov30.135029.18685@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> Sender: news@bbn.com Distribution: alt Lines: 19 glenn@huxley.huxley.bitstream.com (Glenn P. Parker) writes: }In article <1990Nov30.135029.18685@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, }jhl@frith.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes: }> Thanks for the Calvin and Hobbes bitmaps. However, it would nice if the }> poster told us who to view or use them. }NOTE: I was not the poster, but I can help out here. }All the Calvin & Hobbes images were in X Bitmap format, which is a }marvelously inefficient format (at least they were compressed :-). This }format is recognized by the programs xloadimage and xv, and the PBM }library. ... And unless there was some nearly-unprecedented miracle on usenet [Ididn't actually mess with the postings so I don' know], they were probably copyright violations, one and all. /Bernie\