BKINTVOY.RVW 960625 "The Internet Voyeur", Jim Howard, 1995, 0-7821-1655-8, U$19.99 %A Jim Howard djhoward@aol.com %C 2021 Challenger Drive, Alameda, CA 94501 %D 1995 %G 0-7821-1655-8 %I Sybex Computer Books %O U$19.99 510-523-8233 800-227-2346 Fax: 510-523-2373 info@sybex.com %P 388 %T "The Internet Voyeur" Oh, get your head out of the gutter and go and stand in the corner with Senator Exon. This book is about getting and processing graphics and multimedia files from the Internet. The author covers the difference between text and "binary" files, Usenet postings, encoding, ftp, archiving and compression, graphics, sources, animation, sound, viewers, and MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions). Oddly, it does *not* cover the World Wide Web. (It does cite a number of W3 sites.) Howard does a very serviceable job. (Except for the part on viruses.) While not as extensive as "Internet File Formats" (cf. BKINTFLF.RVW), his material covers the most common standards. The explanations are clear, and he is generous with the locations of decoding and other utility software (although his URLs are sometimes a little ragged). Two chapters list a wide variety of online sources of visual content. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996 BKINTVOY.RVW 960625 ============== Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | "Daughters of feminists love to wear Institute for rslade@vanisl.decus.ca | pink and white short frilly dresses Research into rslade@vcn.bc.ca | and talk of successes with boys/ User Rob_Slade@mindlink.bc.ca| It annoys/ Security Canada V7K 2G6 | Their Mums ..." - Nancy White