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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xloadimage patchlevel 04 now available
Message-ID: <1990Feb23.165346.26243@intercon.com>
Date: 23 Feb 90 16:53:46 GMT
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In article <4210@accuvax.nwu.edu>, mccoy@ils.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy) writes:
> One thing that has always struck me as strange about the PBMPLUS
> package (which, I will admit is a marvelous utility) is that there are
> so many utilities to do each task.  Xloadimage will allow me to open
> files of different format without my having to use xloadimagegif or
> xloadimagepbm, etc.  

This is my single favorite thing about xloadimage.  PBMPLUS is truly
wonderful for manipulating images, but xloadimage lets me take a
directory chock full o' images and display any of them, without making
me determine in advance what format each one is in, or worry about whether
it is compressed or not, or whatever.  Software tools are great, but there
are times when a Swiss Army knife is useful too :-)...

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view."
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