Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!scripps!cary From: cary@Scripps.EDU (Steve Cary) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: looking for compressed readhexstring Keywords: readhexstring Message-ID: <125@riscsm.UUCP> Date: 24 Jan 90 17:59:43 GMT Organization: Research Institute of Scripps Clinic; La Jolla, CA Lines: 14 In an attempt to not re-invent the wheel, does anyone have a readhexstring implementation that supports ascii run-length encoding??? The "natives" are getting restless about the ~2 hours required to download an 8-bit color postscript image to our QMS Colorscript 100 via a 9600 baud serial line... THANKS! -Steve Cary cary@scripps.edu Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, CA