Re: Autochromes

erobkin@uwcmail.uwc.edu
Fri Sep 22 09:16:00 CDT 1995

Well, I think the post in this thread that put ASCII on the table was mine.
It seems to have started a chain of misunderstandings. I just received an
email asserting that I posted the offer to send the Autochrome document and
Luis may be thinking I said that if only the French could be written in
ASCII all would be well.

Neither of these is the case.

I did assert an interest, along with others, in receiving the Autochrome
documents. That interest still stands.

I offered to send via email an ASCII file that with minor ASCII editing and
saving as an ASCII file should run without any further modifications as a DOS
based uudecoder.

The original Autochrome post described the French text as the result of a
scanning process. Scanning makes graphics files and the files can be
converted to pure ASCII by uuencoding them. As ASCII they can be emailed
although there still could be problems about file length. With a uudecoder
they can then be returned to their binary form as graphics files and printed
as such.

Doing things this way is not nice but for some it will be the only way to get
the files other than ordinary mail.

The uudecoder will follow in another post.

E. Robkin