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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!mizar.cc.umanitoba.ca!umward10
  3. From: umward10@news.cc.umanitoba.ca (Derek Ward)
  4. Subject: Re: GIF Viewers
  5. Message-ID: <BxGMJ9.CKE@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
  6. Sender: news@ccu.umanitoba.ca
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: ccu.umanitoba.ca
  8. Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
  9. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
  10. References: <1dlosrINNe6o@uni-paderborn.de>
  11. Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:42:43 GMT
  12. Lines: 17
  13.  
  14. Matthias Scheler (tron@uni-paderborn.de) wrote:
  15. : In article <BxBzFy.HHp@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, umward10@news.cc.umanitoba.ca (Derek Ward) writes:
  16. : |> 
  17. : |>    Are there  any GIF viewers that allow you to view powerpacked GIFs?
  18. : |> 
  19. : GIF files are usually Huffman encoded. Even LhA can't compress them very well,
  20. : PowerPacker won't be able to get them 1% smaller.
  21. : 
  22.  
  23.    Ah, didn't think of that.  Thanks.
  24.  
  25.    (Could explain why they wouldn't compress, I always thought JPEG was
  26. the compressor)
  27.  --
  28. _   ///         Computer Science                    "However, everyday, I'm
  29. \\ ///            University of Manitoba, CANADA!     dumping the body..."
  30.  \X//  AMIGA!   umward10@ccu.umanitoba.ca           
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