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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: New Version (0.3.1) of pCD.app (photo CD reader)
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- Keywords: photo CD pCD
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:24:39 GMT
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- I made a few minor changes to pCD.app, and have called it version 0.3.1.
- This is still available via anonymous ftp from eclipse.its.rpi.edu, as is
- version 0.3 (just in case I introduced some bugs in the new version).
-
- Most importantly, this is the first version where I was successful at
- uploading my pCD changes to the standard NeXT-related FTP archives. So, at
- the moment, you can also find this at the hosts:
-
- sonata.cc.purdue.edu
- cs.orst.edu
- ftp.cica.indiana.edu
-
- in the directory pub/next/submissions. I imagine they'll be moved to other
- directories at some point. The archive maintainers might want to delete
- older copies of pCD (the original version which Dick Phillips uploaded in
- December). sonata might want to consider saving a bit over 5 meg of disk
- space by deleting photo_cd.tar.Z too, given that space seems to be a bit
- tight there (photo_cd.tar.Z is a sample of a photo CD, it isn't a
- program...).
-
- Filenames to look for are:
- pCD0.3.1.README
- pCD0.3.1.compressed
-
- Here's an excerpt from the README about the new version:
-
- ---[excerpt:]
- Finally, the application now has some "help" information for pCD itself.
- This isn't much, but it does include a "version history", so I don't have
- to include so much info in this README file! The help info also includes
- a few disclaimers.
-
- There are only two minor coding changes. For one, pCD will now do the
- right thing if the user tries to open "photo_cd/overview.pcd" instead
- of the (expected) "photo_cd" directory by itself. For two, there's an
- preference-panel option to control what pCD should do when printing
- large images. Before it always used to scale the image to fit on a
- single page, and that is still the default. The user can also request
- that it not be scaled (and thus prints on multiple pages), or that it be
- clipped off to fit on a single page.
-
- I'm calling this version 0.3.1 (instead of 0.4) partially because very
- little changed, and partially because I didn't spent much time checking
- what little I did change.
- ---[end excerpt]
-
- The compressed folder includes both the source code and a compiled &
- stripped version of the application itself. This application will only work
- on NeXTSTEP 3.0 machines.
-
- --
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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