jef@well.sf.ca.us (Jef Poskanzer) (01/18/91)
In the referenced message, ccsed@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Ed Dawes) wrote: }Is this a reasonable thing to be looking for, or is a PC just not up to the }job of running such a disc/memory intensive application? I have heard from a few people who have tried and failed to port it to MS/DOS, and one persom who claims to have succeeded but hasn't sent me anything like diffs or executables. I don't think memory use would be a big problem, most of the programs process images a line at a time instead of reading the whole thing in at once. For the ones that do read in the entire image, you might have to put ifdefs into pm_allocarray and pm_freearray to avoid overlarge mallocs. And disk space, well if you've got enough to store your images you've got more than enough to store PBMPLUS. The current sources are 1.1 meg, "merged" executables are .3 to .5 meg, and the man pages are .2 meg. --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@well.sf.ca.us {apple, ucbvax, hplabs}!well!jef "When I was your age, I pulled a few boners." -- Homer Simpson