Viewing Scanned images

[ivan chason]

--- Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com> wrote:

> ivan chason wrote:
> > Is there a viewing app that I could run on unix to
> let
> > other viewers see the scanned images though?
> 
> You're still missing the problem. The files are what
> they are. You can covert 
> them from .tiff to .jpg's to .swf's, but they still
> are bits of data on a 
> server. Your unix box is the server. Your clients
> are the Windows, MacOSX, or 
> Linux machines that a person sits at. The clients
> "pull" the information into 
> them and use an application like irfanview and
> convert those bits of data into a 
> image that is displayed on a screen or paper.
> Nothing on the server has to do 
> with the viewing, how it get viewed all happens on
> the client device.
> 
> Well that's not entirely true... if you change the
> metaphor of how you 
> communicate with the server to be web based, then
> the server does have a huge 
> "say" in how those images get in front of the
> client.
> 
> --
> Walter

So we're back to the simplest solution being to just
setup a VPN.  

Now where would using the BLOB command fit into all of
this.  I'm still hoping to some how stream line the
way that images are viewed.  Now we use a system
command and I would like to contain everything within
FilePro's functionality.  I just really don't have an
understanding of how the BLOB function works.
-Ivan

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