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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!decwrl!bu.edu!dartvax!coos.dartmouth.edu!abs0
  2. From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
  4. Subject: Re: GIF Viewers
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov9.215248.7538@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
  6. Date: 9 Nov 92 21:52:48 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: dartvax.1992Nov9.215248.7538
  8. References: <BxBzFy.HHp@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1dlosrINNe6o@uni-paderborn.de>
  9. Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
  10. Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  11. Lines: 19
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  13. tron@uni-paderborn.de (Matthias Scheler) writes:
  14.  
  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. GIF files are encoded with Huffman code?? mm... I didn't know that...
  23. I always thought JPEG was...
  24.  
  25. >-- 
  26. >Matthias Scheler                                         tron@uni-paderborn.de
  27. >University of Paderborn (Germany)
  28.  
  29. Yours Sincerely,
  30. Kelvin
  31. e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
  32.