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Receiving and Viewing Electronic Images

Suggestions for receiving, decoding and viewing electronic images on either Macintosh or MSDOS/Windows computers.

• How your e-mail system affects digital images
• How it all began
• Compressed files -- a diversion
• Hints for MSDOS/Windows
• Tips for Macintosh

Software to facilitate decoding, unpacking and viewing images. Click on the hot link to download a program.

• For MSDOS/Windows
• To unZIP a compressed file:
• PKZIP and PKUNZIP: PKZ (202 Kb, self-extracting file)
• A Windows shell for PKZIP: WinZip, version 6.0 beta (320 Kb, self-extracting file). For installation instructions, [click here].
• To "unstuff" a Mac stuffit file: Unstuff for MSDOS (134 Kb, self-extracting file)
• For decoding: WinCode (266 Kb, compressed ZIP file)
• For decoding and decompressing both Windows and Mac files under Windows, download Stuffit Expander for Windows. It can handle stuffit .SIT archives, ZIP files, UUencoded, and BinHex (*.hqx) files. (355 Kb, self-extracting file)
• For viewing: Graphic Workshop for Windows, version 1.1r (1 Mb, self-extracting file)
• For Macintosh
• For UUdecoding: UUdecode (200 Kb, self-extracting file)
• For decompressing MSDOS ZIP files, add DropStuff with Expander Enhancer to your copy of Stuffit Expander. Note that you must already have installed Stuffit Expander.
• For correcting file type: File Fanatic (34 Kb, executable file)
• For viewing: Graphic Converter version 2.0.6 (468 Kb, StuffIt compressed file)

or else:

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Last revised: August 25, 1996.

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