Re: Ron's London Kon GIFs

[graham@UG.CS.DAL.CA (Michael Graham)]

In article <9104110118.AA15360@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> nrc@cbema.att.COM (Neal R Caldwell, Ii) writes:

>The question is how to store them.  Right now they're in one
>300k ARC format file.  As long as everyone has access to an ARC
>program I think this is a good way to go.  It keeps the files all in
>one bundle so that they can be easily FTPed or downloaded.  If anyone
>has problems with ARC format or if you'd like to download some of them
>from the board but 300k downloads at 12/2400 baud make you nervous let
>me know, I'm open to suggestions.
>
>I'm also picking up some more GIFs from Ken SaintJohn for the board.
>His latest is a great scan of the pic of Kate with ivy in her hair (as
>seen on the cover of the "Dreamtime" bootleg and The Secret
>History...).  Hopefully those will make it into the archives at some
>point also.

Great - new gifs!! I think the best way to store them is in the standard
binary gif format. This is how all of the others at alaska are archived.
I don't think I have access to a de-ARC-er...you won't get much (if any)
compression on gifs anyway.
As to clutter, maybe you could add a Kon-prefix or Bill could make a new
directory. 
Actually I don't think that either of these is necessary because it is
quite easy to figure out which gifs to ftp - from looking at the dates.

Anyway, I think you should avoid the ARC route (it's an IBM format isn't
it?) because then you will have people like me who won't be able to view
the long awaited gifs, leading to more nagging like "can someone convert
the ARCived gifs for me..."

nuf said
mike
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