From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 10:18:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA01228 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 10:18:04 -0700 Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA01222 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 10:18:02 -0700 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA10770; Thu, 25 May 1995 13:17:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 13:17:00 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199505251717.NAA10770@Glock.COM> To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Photo CD utils? In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, May 25, 1995 09:37:11 -0400 References: <199505242032.QAA06429@Glock.COM> <199505251337.JAA15639@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, May 25, 1995 at 09:37:11 (-0400), John Fieber wrote: > [NOTE: redirected from hackers to questions] > matthew c. mead writes: > > assume I can do the same with FreeBSD. Does anyone know of utilities for > > unix to convert .pcd (Kodak PhotoCD format) files to things I can view? > hpcdtoppm works like a charm. If you are interested, I have a > couple patches at home that make it work on FreeBSD. > Unfortunately, this is not something that should go in the ports > collection because Kodak has threatened legal action against > anyone producing or distributing software to use the photocd > format without a license. hpcdtoppm was written without by > examining actual photocd files, not with approval and > documentation from Kodak. See "Encyclopedia of Graphic File > Formats" by James D. Murry, published by O'Reilly & Associates > ISBN 1-56592-058-9 for more information. Thanks for all the help. I now have a nice little setup where I stick in the Corel professional photos sampler cdrom and login and I get a new pictures every 15 minutes on my desktop. :-) -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----