From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 2 16: 5:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from utep.el.utwente.nl (utep.el.utwente.nl [130.89.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE2937B591 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 16:05:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A.Dergatchev@tn.utwente.nl) Received: from tn.utwente.nl (uttnb55.tn.utwente.nl [130.89.74.55]) by utep.el.utwente.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA25270 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 01:06:05 +0200 Message-ID: <3988A982.CCDFF478@tn.utwente.nl> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 01:06:42 +0200 From: "Andrei A. Dergatchev" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: new books, changing my pt. of view References: <06a801bffc9d$73c1a9c0$1600010a@pmr.com> <014e01bffcb8$7d46fed0$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <20000802215841.A36147@mithrandr.moria.org> <01a201bffcc0$9f2c6370$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> <2000080222 <01cc01bffccc$aba92460$847e03cb@ROADRUNNER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Young wrote: > > Can't say I saw a mention of it on the doc@FreeBSD.org mailing list. > > > The thing was produced primarily to assist members of a non-profit internet > group to setup gateway boxes for their permanent dialup modem connections, > although many of the FreeBSD newbies have used it for whatever purpose. Great site, many thanks !!! > [..] from the current 13 odd Mb without removing the pics, It does create real life feeling I agree, but maybe lite version would be useful too for those on slow modems ? Actually all of your pictures are screen shots of 80X25 (?) VGA screen, ASCII symbol and color. I'd just bet the money that it can be compressed to hell less, be day light distribution and curvature of the monitor together with its boundaries given smaller priority in compression. I vagually remeber reading something about already existing compressor being able to do it. I can dig in comp.compression if there is any interest. [...] Andrei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message