[Ham-Mac] ARRL discrimination - Think different

[Steve Byan]

On a similar note, in the past I've complained to the ARRL publications 
director about their use of proprietary Windows-only software for their 
CD-ROM publications. I see that even their newer issues, such as the 
Ham Radio CD-ROM's still use proprietary formats for the indexes.

I have confirmed with the ARRL that the scanned pages are indeed in 
standard TIFF format, though some are said to be compressed using some 
of the more obscure compression algorithms in the TIFF standard. I've 
used OS X's Preview.app to view some of the Ham Radio scans, and have 
been contemplating learning Cocoa programming by writing an OS X viewer 
for the ARRL CD-ROMs that at least understands how to navigate the 
month, year, and page organization of the directory structure.

Is anyone aware of a Mac application which already does this? Of an 
application that understands the proprietary index format? Of a spec 
for the index file format?


BTW, while I'm not a licensed ham, I am a member of the ARRL, mostly to 
get QEX.

Regards,
-Steve
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Steve Byan <smb@theworld.com> or <smb@world.std.com>
Littleton, MA