Re. Mac -> SGI/Sun Graphics Xfer

[Nong Tarlton]

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   From: nadeau at network.ucsd.edu (Dave Nadeau)
   Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.visualization
   Keywords: image graphics
   Date: 25 Mar 91 20:32:55 GMT
   Followup-To: poster
   Organization: University of California, San Diego



			      San Diego Supercomputer Center
			   Image File Format Conversion Tools
				       Release 1.0
				     March 25, 1991

   The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is pleased to announce the binary
   release of its image file format conversion tools.

   These tools currently support the following image file formats:

	   Format  Description
	   ------- --------------------------------------------------------
	   cgm     Computer Graphics Metafile
	   gif     Compuserve Graphics image file
	   hdf     Hierarchical Data File
	   iff     Sun TAAC Image File Format
	   mpnt    Apple Macintosh MacPaint file
	   pbm     Portable Bitmap file
	   pic     PIXAR picture file
	   pict    Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
	   pix     Alias image file
	   ps      PostScript file
	   ras     Sun Rasterfile
	   rgb     SGI RGB image file
	   rla     Wavefront raster image file
	   rle     Utah Run length encoded image file
	   rpbm    Raw portable Bitmap file
	   synu    Synu image file
	   tiff    Tagged image file
	   x       Stardent AVS X image file
	   xbm     X11 bitmap file
	   xwd     X Window System window dump image file

   Multiple variants of each format are supported (monochrome, color index, RGB,
   RGB+Alpha, uncompressed, run-length encoded, with and without color maps, etc),
   as appropriate to the format.

   These tools are available for the following UNIX machine architectures:

	   Architecture	Description
	   --------------- ------------------------------------------------
	   alliantfx2800	Alliant Computers, FX/2800
	   alliantfx80	Alliant Computers, FX/80
	   crayy		Cray Research, Cray Y-MP
	   sgi4d		Silicon Graphics, SGI 4D
	   sun4		Sun Microsystems, Sun 4 and SPARC

   Other architectures will be added in the future.

   SDSC software products are available via anonymous ftp from 'sdsc.edu' (VMS).
   The anonymous ftp directory tree is structured by machine architecture, and
   then by topic.  For instance, to get the image tools for a sun4, use:

	   ftp> cd sdscpub
	   ftp> cd sun4
	   ftp> cd graphics
		   or
	   ftp> cd [.sdscpub.sun4.graphics]

	   ftp> type binary
	   ftp> get imtools_tar.z imtools.tar.Z

   imtools_tar.z is a compressed tar archive.  imtools_cpio.z is a compressed
   cpio archive.

   Binaries, man pages (nroff source and post-nroff), and release notes are
   included.  Source will be available in the future.  00README's and 00INDEX's
   in the ftp directories explain their contents.  To get one of these, use:

	   ftp> get 00README 00README
	   ftp> get 00INDEX 00INDEX

   If you have any questions, please contact SDSC at:
	   E-mail:		info at sdsc.edu
	   Phone:		(619) 534-5100, 8am-5pm, pacific time



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Nong Tarlton
Microelectronics and Computer Corporation
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 338-3344
email: nong at mcc.com