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Re: dcview21.zip -- ColorView for DOS JPEG Viewer

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From: dimitri k
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:52
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dk@alcor.concordia.ca (dimitri k) writes:

>I ran across another problem.  I was checking out its command-line file 
>conversion capability (doing some time trials) and the convert-to-jpg one 
>would not work at all.  It kept returning the message "no image to save,"
>as if it could not find the file.  I got the same response even when I
>used full pathnames.  Has anyone else had this problem?  Specifically, 
>try the following
>   cview -j85 <gif_file>
>where <gif_file> is any gif file in the directory.

Here's a solution:

====================
From: Chris Boyd <clb@hp835.mitek.com>


try cview <gif-file> -j85
====================

It doesn't follow the documented syntax, but it works.

Thanks Chris.

dk
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