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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 01:12:48 +0800
From: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net>
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To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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Patrick Gardella wrote:

> AT&T recently announced a new compression method for images on the net.  It can
> compress a high resolution image file 4-5X smaller than gif or jpeg.
>
> Now what concerns us:
> I wrote to them asking them to make a FreeBSD port of this (since they had
> Irix, Linux, and Solaris).  In about five hours, they had a FreeBSD port of it!
> I was quite impressed, to say the least (See message below).
>
> However, they don't plan to support it "very actively", probably due to the
> suspected low requests for it.
>
> If this is something you can use, visit them and voice your support.
> http://djvu.research.att.com/home_mstr.htm
>
> They do not have a compressor app for FreeBSD yet, but I would suppose that
> this could be done as well fairly quickly.
>
> On a side note, the Linux version does not work on FreeBSD.  It will "run", but
> not display the files.  I did not test the Linux plug-in with the Linux
> Netscape however.
>

Patrick,

I can run Linux version djvu with no problems on FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE.
What kind of problems do you encounter?

Regards,
Doug.




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