Re: [TCLUG:3467] GIMP and arbitrary/raw files

[Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>]

On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Shawn T . Amundson wrote:

> > Well, I just tried adding a GIF header to a copy of /proc/kcore. Actually
> > I did that a whole ago - loading it into gimp totally killed my computer.
> > Apparently loading an image the size of your RAM, which has illegal
> > characters in it, is not a good idea...
> 
> It works fine here, but I'm using pnm.

I'm ignorant: What is pnm, exactly? What kinds of graphics applications
does it get used in?

> Here are some instructions.

[snip]

Man, that kicks ass! Thanks!!! :^)

> Now, that's only 256MB, since I only have that much RAM.

Awww, your life is tough. ;^)

> Ok, here is a screenshot of GIMP having loaded /proc/kcore on
> my machine, zoomed for security reasons.  ;-)

Precisely the kind of thing I was hoping for! Thanks. :^)

Now to try it on my system...hopefully I'll be able to keep my uptime
record...

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