richb@sunaus.oz.au (Rich Burridge) (12/12/89)
In the next few days, a program called popi will appear in comp.sources.misc. Popi is a program for manipulating digital images. Popi was originally written by Gerard J. Holzmann - AT&T Bell Labs. This version is based on the code in his Prentice Hall book, "Beyond Photography - the digital darkroom," ISBN 0-13-074410-7, which is copyright (c) 1988 by Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. Special thanks go to Gerard for allowing this distribution to take place, and to Dennis Ritchie for letting us plaster his face all over the net. Permission is given to distribute these extensions, as long as these introductory messages are not removed, and no monies are exchanged. See the README and manual pages for more details. Device drivers are currently included for: Amiga Works with Lattice C 5.04, but you'ld better have at least 2M of memory, or restrict yourself to small (128by128) images. Apollo Atari terminal Kermit terminal MGR NeWS Works with NeWS v1.1 and OpenWindows v1.0. PC Works with Turbo C, Microsoft C (including Quick C) and Mix Software's Power C. There is support for the common graphics cards (CGA, EGA, VGA, HGC) and additionally, the Turbo C graphics library routines can be used for non-standard cards if you have the appropriate .BGI file. SunView Works with SunOS v3.x and SunOS v4.x. X11 Works with X11r2 and X11r3 and Open Windows v1.0. XView Needs the XView toolkit source distribution or Open Windows v1.0. null For those with no graphics screen, this enables you to just use one of the printer options. Output is available for: PostScript Epson printers. We'd be interested to hear what other machines you get it working on, so that we can keep this list up to date. There is a TODO file included which lists current bugs, and the enhancements that will be added in the future. HISTORY This program was first released to aus.sources in July 1989 in conjunction with a competition held prior to this year's Australian Unix Systems User's Group Conference and Exhibition. The best transformation of Dennis Ritchie's face (as judged by Dennis) was put on T-shirts that were given to each conference delegate. Bug-fixes, improvements and new drivers were garnered. A number of vendors had popi running at the exhibition. If you make any bug fixes changes or improvements please let us know so that we can add them to the main distribution. More device drivers are particularily welcome. Rich Burridge & Stephen Frede. Rich Burridge, DOMAIN: richb@sunaus.oz.au PHONE: +61 2 413 2666 UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!sunaus.oz!richb Stephen Frede, DOMAIN: stephenf@softway.oz.au PHONE: +61 2 698 2322 UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,ukc}!munnari!softway.oz!stephenf