[comp.windows.x] USA Flag GIF images

roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen) (02/11/91)

Recently, someone was asking for an image of a USA flag.

After digging through my images, I couldn't find one,
so I took a few minutes, and drew up a couple of USA flag pixmaps.

Here they are.  One is 125x77, the other is 640x400.
A 1.6:1 aspect ratio seemed to look about right.

Enjoy...

Roger

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roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen) (02/11/91)

Here's the 640x400 USA Flag GIF image.
(Unpack with uudecode.)

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roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen) (02/13/91)

Excuse my ignorance...

After posting this, I received several "thank you's" messages via e-mail,
and one message implying that posting these images was a "no no".

Is it "a bad thing" to post images here?  Even if small?
If so, what is the officially acceptable method for making images available?

Thanks,

Roger

garyc@hobbes.wv.tek.com (Gary Combs) (02/16/91)

In article <990016@hpnmdla.HP.COM>, roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen) writes:
|> Excuse my ignorance...
|> 
|> After posting this, I received several "thank you's" messages via e-mail,
|> and one message implying that posting these images was a "no no".
|> 
|> Is it "a bad thing" to post images here?  Even if small?
|> If so, what is the officially acceptable method for making images available?
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> 
|> Roger

Unless a newsgroup comp.images. or such is created, I feel this is still the
best place to distribute the images. compressing/uuencoding  helps and
possibly multiple shar files.

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roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen) (02/16/91)

Another way to look at this situation is this:

	A picture (GIF image) is worth a thousand words.
	
	A thousand words is about 5K or 6K bytes.
	
	So, since the images I posted totaled roughly 6KB,
	I didn't really waste any extra net cost.  :-)

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People have suggested that better ways of making images available are:
	- post to comp.sources.x
	- post to alt.pictures
	- announce, and make available via ftp.

Each of these has its problems for certain people; no clear cut answer.

In any case, I agree that it's important that we discourage people from
posting *huge* images to comp.windows.x.  (Personally, however, my
definition of huge is 100K Bytes, not 5 or 10 K Bytes.)

Roger