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- From: markus@beaver.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer)
- Subject: Re: GIF Viewers
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:06:15 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov9.202013.8767@hubcap.clemson.edu> jmauric@eng.clemson.edu (John Maurice) writes:
- > to compress a GIF (yes its possible!), i suggest you use a program called
- > GIFBLAST. Archie it and get a hold of it from an ftp site. if you cant
- > find it, email me and i will post the sites which have it. GIFBLAST is
- > available for both the amiga and unix. maybe for the pc also but not sure.
- > its shareware or freeware. not sure which. compression saves you 25%. a
- > very valuable 25% if you ask me.
-
- Well yes. The way they (GIFBLAST) do it is this:
- Normally Gif-Pics are Huffman encoded line-by-line, this makes it more secure
- and the gif is usable even if it's corrupted at the end.
- Gifblast unpacs the files and does a Huffman encoding on the whoole file.
- Now, you gain 25% on the size, but you don't gain more security.
-
- Anyway, you need an appropriate Gif-Viewer for those (Pseudo-)Gifs. And this one
- is not avail for the Amiga.
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- > Reply to JMAURIC@ENG.CLEMSON.EDU | 300 Rippleview Dr.
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- Markus
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