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From: jarnot@canisius.UUCP (Repo Man)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Comp.graphics.images
Summary: Already compressed!
Message-ID: <2586@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:46:37 GMT
References: <30763@mips.mips.COM> <4810@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu> <340@vixen.uucp> <7821@bunny.GTE.COM>
Organization: Young Moderate Republicans, Canisius College, Buffalo
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In article <7821@bunny.GTE.COM>, sg04@GTE.COM (Steven Gutfreund) writes:
> What sort of compression will be used for these images? Also are there
> better publicly available compressions that unix COMPRESS (Lempel-Ziv)?

If the images are GIF pictures, they are already compressed due to the fact
that they ARE GIF pictures.  The image data is compressed with a Lempel-
Ziv type compression method.  I'm not sure how much space will be saved
from running compress on the uuencoded image.


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