src/tiff/contrib/mfs/README

Date:    Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:30:48 +0200
To:      <sam@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>

From:    "Mike Johnson" <mikehunt@swipnet.se>
Subject: libtiff - Thanks

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Delivery-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 06:53:39 -0700

Hi Sam,

I noticed in the README from libtiff that you would like to know about
what people have done with libtiff, so I thought I would drop you a
line.

We have used libtiff to create and convert TIFF images of financial
documents which are sent from and to major document processing systems
in Sweden and Denmark.

I would like to express my deep gratitude to yourself and Sillicon
Graphics for making this excellent library available for public use.
There is obviously a lot of work that has gone in to libtiff and the
quality of the code and documentation is an example to others.

One thing that libtiff did not do was work on a memory area rather than
files. In my applications I had already read a TIFF or other format
file in to memory and did not want to waste I/O writing it out again
for libtiff's benefit. I therefore constructed a set of functions to
pass up to TIFFClientOpen to simulate a file in memory. I have attached
my mfs (memory file system) source code for you to use or junk, as you
see fit. :-)

Once again, thanks very much for making my life simpler.

Best Regards,

Mike Johnson.
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	1	Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:30:48 +0200
	2	To: <sam@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com>
	3
	4	From: "Mike Johnson" <mikehunt@swipnet.se>
	5	Subject: libtiff - Thanks
	6
	7	Return-Path: mikehunt@swipnet.se
	8	Delivery-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 06:53:39 -0700
	9
	10	Hi Sam,
	11
	12	I noticed in the README from libtiff that you would like to know about
	13	what people have done with libtiff, so I thought I would drop you a
	14	line.
	15
	16	We have used libtiff to create and convert TIFF images of financial
	17	documents which are sent from and to major document processing systems
	18	in Sweden and Denmark.
	19
	20	I would like to express my deep gratitude to yourself and Sillicon
	21	Graphics for making this excellent library available for public use.
	22	There is obviously a lot of work that has gone in to libtiff and the
	23	quality of the code and documentation is an example to others.
	24
	25	One thing that libtiff did not do was work on a memory area rather than
	26	files. In my applications I had already read a TIFF or other format
	27	file in to memory and did not want to waste I/O writing it out again
	28	for libtiff's benefit. I therefore constructed a set of functions to
	29	pass up to TIFFClientOpen to simulate a file in memory. I have attached
	30	my mfs (memory file system) source code for you to use or junk, as you
	31	see fit. :-)
	32
	33	Once again, thanks very much for making my life simpler.
	34
	35	Best Regards,
	36
	37	Mike Johnson.