EDSTROM@UNCAEDU.BITNET.UUCP (05/21/87)
Date: Thu, 21 May 87 11:43 MDT From: <EDSTROM%UNCAEDU.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU> Subject: esperanto To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu X-Original-To: info-atari16@score.stanford.edu, EDSTROM I want to transmit graphs and such from my atari to a friend's Macintosh in a distant city. Is there any common graphic language that can be used by both machines? PostScript sounds like it might be what I want. Does this sound reasonable? What protocol do facimile machines use? I am only interested in monochrome transfers so color-preserving protocols are not needed. edstrom@uncaedu.bitnet
holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) (05/22/87)
In article <8705211811.AA29952@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> EDSTROM@UNCAEDU.BITNET writes: >I want to transmit graphs and such from my atari to a friend's Macintosh in >a distant city. Is there any common graphic language that can be used by >both machines? Your best bet is likely to be a RLE (Run Length Encoding) scheme. Run Length Encoding builds a file with scanline information (i.e., four white pixels, then three black, then ten white, then sixteen black, etc.) and almost every computer has conversion to and from RLE. There are two programs for the ST that do this - Pickswitch v7.0 converts from RLE format to Neochrome or DEGAS format, and DEGTORLE converts from DEGAS to RLE format. There are probably similar programs for the Mac, but I have no idea what they might be. - Bruce -- Bruce Holloway - Relapsed Newsaholic {seismo,sun}!amdahl!drivax!holloway "Everything should be made as complex as possible - esp. if you're paid hourly." What Irony - 75 - "The Personal Diaries of Albert Einstein"