set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Steve E Tietze ) (02/14/91)
I cant seeem to post letters. I hope this gets through. steve In article <53071@sequent.UUCP> you write: >dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: >> raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design) writes: >> >set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Steve E Tietze ) writes: >> >>How can I get pbmplus on a 880k floppy disk.? >> > >> > You can't! Last time I checked it was on three floppies! If I'm reading >> >your posting too literally, then I can't help you. I don't know an >> >archive source. >> >> Yah, the archive is ~900K, according to FILES.Z on xanth... > >As I mentioned to the original poster in email, you can fit MOST of the >pbmplus tools (no documentation files) on a single floppy by running them >through powerpacker (set to compression to level 4), and then removing >those tools you are not likely to need (and probably a couple that you >ARE likely to need). By doing this, I was able to reduce the size >of the tools so they will JUST fit on a single diskette. > >Regards, >Chris Chris, My major problem is that I only have one meg right now and two 880k drives . I cant even upload them to my amiga. Can someone crunch this file a little more ? Or can some one just compress it to only a couple of things that I wouldneed to run it. I only want it to change Iff's or other pic. formatts to gif file. ??? <-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-><-> <-> AMIGA MAN! ***Kansas State University*** Steve Tietze <-> <-> Email set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu Phone 913-539-9101 <-> <-><-><-><-><-><-><->And Justice for All ... Metallica<-><-><-><-><-><-><->
sreiz@cs.vu.nl (Steven Reiz) (02/14/91)
set@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Steve E Tietze ) writes: [problems with the pbm archive file to big to fit on floppies deleted] > My major problem is that I only have one meg right now and two 880k drives >. I cant even upload them to my amiga. Can someone crunch this file a little >more ? Or can some one just compress it to only a couple of things that I wouldneed to run it. I only want it to change Iff's or other pic. formatts to gif >file. ??? I think that you can ftp the separate executables (zoo-ed, together with documentation) from pc.usl.edu, directory /pub/amiga/pbmplus. I'm not completely sure, and I can't check it right now bacause of some network problems. Steven Reiz