From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 28 14:03:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23804 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:03:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23785 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:02:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 105zWX-00077v-00; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:02:54 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id WAA02709; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:02:13 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11495; Thu, 28 Jan 99 22:02:10 GMT Message-Id: <36B0DE2B.9CB4A6E2@uk.radan.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:01:15 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jason C. Wells" Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Back to school References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jason C. Wells" wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > > >OK, such research could be done on the Internet, but telephone charges > >could make this prohibitive, especially for schools. I rather hope > >that with the increased acceptance of Linux in the mainstream we may > >see Linux versions of such software available in the not too distant > >future. Then I can get rid of 95. > > I think that free software can make this happen. Of course, it would be > really nice if the folks at Apple who like our code so much would build a > BSD version of Quicktime. > That would certainly help, maybe we should ask them? > Most of these programs are just collections of standard format clips, > pics, and some formatting. All most all of them are built with multimedia > toolkits like QuickTime or Director. > We've got IBM World Book and whilst what you say about using std format clips etc is true unfortunately they are all packed in proprietry format archives (wb.dat - 250MB) and they don't even put OS/2 binaries on the CD - it's Windows only. > Tools for unix to display the data formats exists. If there were a > quicktime or director clone, then the data on the CD could be read and > displayed as it would be on a PC. > Unless they will divulge these proprietry formats then there's not much hope of this happening :-( > Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter. > Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ -- Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message