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- From: s8922967@macgraw.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Murray Gilbert)
- Subject: Re: GIF viewers and GIF89a
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:44:05 GMT
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- In article <frank.25.727836804@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov> frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) writes:
- >From the faq for alt.binaries.pictures.utilities, I see some
- >recommendations for Amiga GIF viewers. However, it does not make
- >it clear whether these viewers will work with GIF89a files; on
- >other platforms, many viewers bomb when trying to view a GIF89a
- >file. (The main thing about GIF89a is that the file contains an
- >embedded caption in the form of a "comment extension block."
- >Files under the previous GIF87a standard just had the image.)
-
- I have found that most of them reject anything but gifs beginning
- with 'GIF87a'. However, I have also found that some that seem to
- hand some of the GIF89a pictures completely ok when I manually
- change the '9' in the file to a '7' with a binary file editor.
- I haven't tested this extensively though.
-
- Cya,
- Murray.
-
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