Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:08:07 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <200006160808.KAA12196@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
From: Markus Leypold <leypold@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
To: SHOPPA@trailing-edge.com
Cc: PUPS@MINNIE.CS.ADFA.OZ.AU
In-reply-to: <000615232451.262000b2@trailing-edge.com> (message from Tim
	Shoppa on Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:24:51 -0400)
Subject: Re: Bunch of Unix tapes rescued
References:  <000615232451.262000b2@trailing-edge.com>
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 > Delivered-To: leypold@lesbains.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
 > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:24:51 -0400
 > From: Tim Shoppa <SHOPPA@trailing-edge.com>
 > Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au
 > 
 > > Again, yes please!!!
 > 
 > Would it be useful if I also uploaded GIF's or JPG's or TIFF's of scans
 > of the labels on the original tapes?  If so, is there any preference for
 > the format of the scan?  These are all (as Tommy Smothers
 > would say) "the original virgin" tapes.


Well, I'm presently only a client of the archive, so to say, but why not use
png (the gif replacement advocated by the FSF). Better not use GIF for all
this licensing issues. And as far as I see, png can be shown by -- well -- 
Netscape, whereas TIFF requires a plugin or an external viewer.


Regards - Markus