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  1. Newsgroups: comp.compression
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
  3. From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
  4. Subject: Re: compressing gif files
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov12.060153.10499@rei.com>
  6. Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:01:53 GMT
  7. References: <1992Nov8.114946.11060@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <3309@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> <1ds8o8INNgun@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>
  8. Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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  11. What type of compression is GIFBLAST doing, anyway?  It seems to me that
  12. some saving could be realized by re-encoding the graphic data using a
  13. more state-of-the-art compression engine, such as LZH instead of LZW.
  14. Is this all that it's doing?
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  17. #ifdef TRUE        | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone)       fuzzy@netcom.com
  18. #define  TRUE   0  |
  19. #define  FALSE  1  |     "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
  20. #endif             |                                   -- Mark Twain
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