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- From: 90taobri@BLUFFS.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: archiving GIF files on the GS
- Message-ID: <9212131913.AA07973@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 19:13:17 GMT
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- Organization: MuGS Research and Development Facility
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- The following revelation escaped Jimmy Shaw's lips:
- >
- > I was wondering if anyone's figured out a way to archive GIF files on
- > the GS. As far as I know, GIF files can't really be compressed,
- > in terms of saving space.
-
- You can think of GIF is simply another archive format, like NuFX or
- PKZIP or ARJ. If you want to get better compression, you would have to
- convert the GIF back to raw image data and then use some other technique
- (like JPEG). Trying to compress a GIF itself won't get you very far.
-
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