4 Apr
1999
4 Apr
'99
1:30 p.m.
<Schematics and other info's on highgate (when
you get time to download the
<viewer!).
There is no free or shareware viewer for that format I can find. If you
have one it can likely save the file as jpg of gif. Why an oddball version
of TIFF was used is beyond me.
I've got to agree, that is one irritating format. As far as I've been able
to determine, nothing on UNIX or VMS will read it, and I think the Mac has
trouble with it also, but can peal it apart. So basically you're stuck
having to read it using Windows, which quite bluntly strikes me as stupid,
considering that I suspect a lot of use that are interested in the
documenation can't stand to run Windows!
On the other hand, I have managed to check it out at work on a NT machine
which I had till I tossed it out of my office in disgust a couple months
back (back to just a RS/6000 and a IBM typewriter), and it was pretty
nicely done. It took a lot of effort to put those files together and that
effort is much appreciated, so while I hate the format I'm not really
complaining. After all, in my opinion having to put up with a Windows PC
in order to access the stuff is for the most part a decent tradeoff.
Zane
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