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In <1ifp9tINN2ov@network.ucsd.edu> nadeau@sdsc.edu (Dave Nadeau,,45062) writes:

>In response to the SDSC Image Tools release posting, Jeff Hanson wrote:

>	>>While I agree completely about the usefulness of source and would love
>	>>to have for these tools in particular, do not pass up the opportunity
>	>>to have the best single program conversion tool, imconv.

>To which Steve Lamont replied:

>	>Don't forget pbmplus *is* available in source code and does 99 percent
>	>of what imconv does (and often does it faster!).  It's available with
>	>the X11 distribution in the contrib directory or from your favorite
>	>FTP site (wuarchive.uwstl.edu comes to mind).

>As the authors of the SDSC Image Tools, we feel we must respond to this
>posting to help clear up any misconceptions.  The SDSC Image Tools differ
>in significant ways from the PBMPlus package.  The following rather long
>message details some of these ways.

I diligently ploughed through this posting as I had never heard of the
SDSC Image Tools. They sound very impressive. I thought some of the points
in here were a little hard on pbmplus, given the nature of its development.

The two packages have different philosophies about how things are done.
I personally like the pbmplus approach which allows the user to control
(on the command line or in scripts) what goes on, but I can see for
common operations an integrated approach is much better. Of course,
"common" all depends on what you do... Oh yes, pbmplus does use
libraries as well.  :-)

Anyway, I got to the interesting part (the ftp address) and I think I
found the right directory (I'm not familiar with the system there) but
there isn't a directory for my machine running linux :-( So I guess I
have to pass up the opportunity of trying imconv... and I do a lot of
image manipulation too. Never mind, maybe it will get ported one day.

I have to support the idea of source releases. My whole operating system
and everything in it comes from source releases! If there's no source
its just not as "available".

				Mark.

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Mark Dobie                              M.R.Dobie@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
University of Southampton		M.R.Dobie@ecs.soton.ac.uk (The World)