jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) (09/03/89)
In article <2641@tymix.UUCP> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: >One other warning: Fred Fish put a note on the version of uncompress in >his library that states that uncompress sometimes fails to uncompress >large files. Symptoms are: 1) infinite loop writing garbage to the disk, >2) trashed free-list (AVAIL reports 29megabytes of memory free), or >3) all floppy drive select lights go on and the Amiga hangs. I am having >problems with spots, tritonwhole, and twocresc. My problem was that I forgot to tell FTP to use binary mode. I'm surprised that 'triton', 'crater', and 'whole' came thru without the usual CRLF<->LF mangling. On the second attempt, everything uncompressed to 307200 bytes like they were supposed to. They are much smaller when saved as IFF. The following table shows their original size (raw format as compressed *.Z) and the size when stored as IFF hires 640x480x16-gray. name raw.Z IFF ----------- ----- ----- bigtriton 60067 96590 Triton, full screen, 2/3 N hemi, 1/3 S hemisphere crater 55420 104034 Triton, small crater lower middle, full screen file1 1114331 60072 Neptune, crescent, JPL display file2 --- 79456 Neptune, full, white equatorial clouds, JPL, great! file3 --- 85820 Neptune, full, Dark Spot, JPL display, garbled file4 --- 102268 Triton, mountain ridges, JPL display file5 --- 92440 Triton, smooth areas, JPL display, garbled twice file6 --- 83734 Neptune's rings, JPL display, garbled at top file7 --- 60864 Sunrise highlighting the rings, JPL, great! spots 54952 94580 Dark spots light borders, full screen, Triton triton 48446 63014 Triton, full screen, part of northern hemisphere tritonwhole 169178 72884 Triton, full sphere, JPL display, garbled bottom twocresc 144731 63380 Neptune & Triton as crescents, JPL display, garble whole 26957 53234 Neptune, full sphere, whole display newsweek.ham 45535 32508 Neptune, color, Dark Spot and clouds Files:15 Blocks:2265 Bytes:1144878 (more than 880K) It looks like the HAM picture came from the cover of Newsweek. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"
sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (09/05/89)
<554@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Sender: Reply-To: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Corpane Industries, Inc. Keywords: In article <554@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes: > [about the neptune/triton pix available anon-ftp] How about if someone took the time to send these pics to the kilowatt archive server for us poor people with no internet connections? Please? -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.