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From: akm@cacofonix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: GIF viewers in Windows
Summary: GCP views GIF
Message-ID: <1990May8.033745.2160@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 8 May 90 03:37:45 GMT
References: <8622@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <4168@peora.ccur.com> <1990May5.161352.2716@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <4174@peora.ccur.com>
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In article <4174@peora.ccur.com> joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) writes:
>In article <1990May5.161352.2716@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, kfort@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Ken Fort) writes:
>> Speaking of GIF files, has anyone ever attempted to make a Windows 
>>application to view these files?
>
>I've used a shareware package called Easel that does this. I found that
>it was very slow. Since VGIF was upgraded to VPIC, I don't use it anymore.

There is a newer version of Easel called GCP, which I find very
useful. It can translate between a number of different graphics
formats. I seem to recall that Easel is copyright someone else, so
they changed the name.

kartik

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Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
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