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Grex Internet Item 85: downloading picture files
Entered by mcpoz on Wed Apr 5 00:24:54 UTC 1995:

If I download a file from WWW, how do I view it.  I have a shareware
viewer which looks at something like 24 different file types, but nothing
of the format found on WWW (Which is a letter followed by a 5-digit number).
Anyone know?

12 responses total.

#1 of 12 by srw on Wed Apr 5 02:11:48 1995:

Pictures on the web are either in gif or jpeg format.
Don't be confused by the file name you are getting.
I use jpegview on my powermac. Try WinGIF if you have windows,
or PMJPEG if you have OS/2.

#2 of 12 by kaplan on Wed Apr 5 03:56:30 1995:

Lynx still doesn't pass filenames from remote hosts to the PC when you
download the file.  Is there a new version of lynx coming that fixes
this bug (feature)?

#3 of 12 by srw on Wed Apr 5 05:51:26 1995:

Don
I don't know. They certainly talked about doing this a lot.
Our version is fairly recent, too.

#4 of 12 by mcpoz on Thu Apr 6 01:05:38 1995:

Ok, thanks. I'll try WinGIF - have not used that before.  I'll be back
if I can't find it.

#5 of 12 by nephi on Thu Apr 6 02:33:22 1995:

Tell me where you found it, if you succeed.  

        Please.

#6 of 12 by peacefrg on Thu Apr 6 13:55:13 1995:

I don't thin kI've used wingif before. I have vueprint and lvpro. Can
you recommend any other good programs. I found a great morphing program 
on ftp too. I'm not sure if it is commercial or not. I have the feeling it is.
But, If anybody is interested I can get the name for you.

#7 of 12 by mcpoz on Sat Apr 8 01:31:38 1995:

I downloaded a program off of compuserve called GSD (or something like that)
and it seems to work on properly formatted filenames.  It crashes when I 
try anything I downloaded off of internet.  I also bought a shareware morphing
program & failed to notice that it requires 16 meg ram.  Now it's gathering
dust.

#8 of 12 by peacefrg on Wed Apr 19 20:04:34 1995:

Nephi, you can get it at ftp.unipg.it
But, I wouldn't recommend wingif or winjpeg. Neithor are very fast.
Archie lview16.zip Now theres a great program.
I might get corel draw 3.0 Does anybody have this? Is it any good?

#9 of 12 by nephi on Thu May 4 11:14:52 1995:

Thank you, peacefrg.  

        (Um, what program should I get to unzip it?  Do I have to 
        copy it to some other Unix computer to do it?)

#10 of 12 by peacefrg on Fri May 5 13:34:14 1995:

Newer program than lview..Get photoshop. It's much better. psp30.zip

#11 of 12 by curby on Sat May 6 08:42:42 1995:

Is photoshop freeware or shareware or crippleware?

#12 of 12 by peacefrg on Sat May 6 15:10:17 1995:

Shareware. But you get all of the options without registering.
No crippleware.

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