[comp.sources.d] problems locating xtiff author

phil@cgrg.ohio-state.EDU (Phil Ritzenthaler) (04/29/91)

A software package was posted to comp.sources.x from dbs@kodak.enet.dec.com 
(dan sears) entitled xtiff.  I needed to get more information from the author
about the package, but mailing to kodak.enet.dec.com came back from the
MAILER-DAEMON saying dbs was user unknown.

In the part01 header, he stated:
	xtiff has two chief limitations: its handling of the colormap can only
	be described as brutal and it does not attempt to display images that
	are deeper than the available visuals through dithering or median cut
	algorithms.

But it has a third limitation, stated in the README of the Xlib version:
	xtiff requires Sam Leffler's libtiff package
	which can be found on ucbvax.berkeley.edu

When I ftp'ed to ucbvax.berkeley.edu, I grep'ed around all of the directories,
but could not find a mention of a libtiff package.

Can anyone else help?  Can Dan Sears from kodak.enet.dec.com please get in
touch with me??

Thank you . . .

Phil Ritzenthaler  The Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design (ACCAD)
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jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/30/91)

In article <1600@sunc.osc.edu>, phil@cgrg.ohio-state.EDU (Phil Ritzenthaler) writes:
|> A software package was posted to comp.sources.x from dbs@kodak.enet.dec.com 
|> (dan sears) entitled xtiff.  I needed to get more information from the author
|> about the package, but mailing to kodak.enet.dec.com came back from the
|> MAILER-DAEMON saying dbs was user unknown.

  The patch posted in Volume 9 of comp.windows.x indicates that his address is
dbs@decwrl.dec.com.  Try that.

|> When I ftp'ed to ucbvax.berkeley.edu, I grep'ed around all of the directories,
|> but could not find a mention of a libtiff package.
|> 
|> Can anyone else help?  Can Dan Sears from kodak.enet.dec.com please get in
|> touch with me??

  "Archie" knows of a few different sites that have the source for libtiff
available on them, including:

Host media-lab.media.mit.edu   (18.85.0.2)
Last updated 05:13  6 Apr 1991

    Location: /music
      FILE      rwxr-xr-x    711912  Nov 23  1989   libtiff.tar.Z

If you don't know how to use "archie", I suggest you read this posting:

        Subject: Information about finding sources (READ THIS BEFORE POSTING)
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If it has expired at your site, you can wait until it is posted again (I
believe that will happen tonight), or you can get a copy using the
instructions appended to the end of this message.

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tp@decwrl.dec.com (t patterson) (04/30/91)

In article <1991Apr29.194513.6410@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <1600@sunc.osc.edu>, phil@cgrg.ohio-state.EDU (Phil Ritzenthaler) writes:
>|> A software package was posted to comp.sources.x from dbs@kodak.enet.dec.com 
>|> (dan sears) entitled xtiff.  I needed to get more information from the author
>|> about the package, but mailing to kodak.enet.dec.com came back from the
>|> MAILER-DAEMON saying dbs was user unknown.
>
>  The patch posted in Volume 9 of comp.windows.x indicates that his address is
>dbs@decwrl.dec.com.  Try that.

The From: line on his posting was screwed up. The proper address is
dbs@kodak.pa.dec.com .  dbs@decwrl.dec.com should work also.

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