File: The most frequently asked questions about NIH-Image:
1) Downloading NIH-Image
2) Searching for answers to my question (via gopher or WWW)
3) Mail list subscribing and unsubscribing
       Related: digest and postpone mode
4) NIH Image on other platforms
  
********** Downloading the latest version of NIH Image **********

The latest version of NIH Image, application, documents, source code, macros and more can be found on the anonymous ftp server zippy.nimh.nih.gov in the directory /pub/nih-image

One of the best ways to download the program is to use the public domain application known as "Fetch".

********** Searching for answers to my question **********

If you want to search for answers to your question from answers given in the past on the NIH-Image mailing list you can do this via gopher. If you have access to gopher you can connect to gopher.soils.umn.edu or follow:

"Gopher tunnels" to "All Gopher Servers in the world" to "University of Minnesota Soil Science Gopher Information Service"  and follow this path:

    Computer Information/
     General Information/
      Search Nih-Image Mailing List Archives <?>

to search the archived messages for keywords, or

    Computer Information/
     General Information/
      Selected Electronic Mailing List Archives/      
       Nih-image*/
               
for the actual archived messages.

Or you can follow these routes on WWW from the following URL:

    gopher://gopher.soils.umn.edu

The message archives which are available through gopher are also
available via ftp to:

    ftp.soils.umn.edu:pub/info/email-lists/Nih-image*


********   How to subscribe to the NIH-Image mailing list ***********

Note: substitute subscribe or unsubscribe as appropriate 

Subscribe to the NIH Image mailing list by sending a message containing the line:

 subscribe nih-image <your real name>

Send this to listproc@soils.umn.edu

Note: if you send your message to nih-image@soils.umn.edu it will be routed to all on the list instead of getting you subscribed (or unsubscribed)

*****   Postpone mode while away  *******

Frequent statement:

> I was at a
> conference for 10 days and I am in the process of sorting
> through nearly 400 messages.

If you know you're going to be offline for a while, our LISTPROC has a
useful feature; POSTPONE, which takes you off the distribution list,
but keeps you subscribed.  You can then reset your subscription when
you get back.  

To postpone send message:

set NIH-Image mail postpone

To restore normal mail mode send:

set NIH-Image mail ack

*****   Digest mode option for those who don't want tons of email *******

Similarly, you can also set your subscription to "digest" mode, which
collects all the daily messages (sometimes there will be very many) and sends it out once per day.  

set nih-image mail digest

Send this to listproc@soils.umn.edu
To reset your subscription to "trickle", or many mailings mode send:

set nih-image mail ack

*****   NIH Image on other platforms *******

From wayne@helix.nih.gov (Wayne Rasband) reply on nih-image@soils.umn.edu 

>I would like to know if there is (or if there are plans to do) any version 
>of NIH-Image that will run on any of the following machines:
>
>1. Sun Sparc Workstations

NIH Image is Macintosh application but it should be possible to run it on a
SUN or HP workstation using Apple's new Mac emulator for UNIX called
Macintosh Application Environment (MAE). More infomation on MAE is
available from mae@applelink.apple.com. There is supposed to be a free
trial CD available. Note that the Sun version requires Solaris 2.3.

>2. IBM Risk's or Digital Alpha Risk's

Apple and IBM are working on a Mac emulator for IBM workstations running AIX.

>3. DOS or Unix based PC-compatibles

There is no DOS/Windows version of NIH Image.
 
>4. (few chances...) Convex vectorial machines

Not possible.

>>From my undesrtanding of the discussions (I'm new to this group) the main 
>focus is on Apple's, and there is one version for Silicon Graphics machines. 
>Am I correct??

There is no SGI version of NIH Image.