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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>
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You like asteriks I would guess...

On Sun, 26 May 1996, Seppo Kallio wrote:

> Is there some utility to grabb one frame from qcam? It would be nice for
> some www pages etc.

Yes, it's called (surprise) 'qcam' and comes with Scott Laird's library 
distribution.

Outputs to ppm (?) format.  I pipe it through cjpeg to get a JPEG image.

I have a web camera up off my homepage.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major