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From: fritz@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Gary Fritz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Help needed with XGIF gif viewer
Message-ID: <7540052@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 90 15:52:36 GMT
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> Are you sure that your HP has 8 bits-per-pixel?  I ran into the same
> problem that you did, and found out the reason it did not work on my
> workstation, but did on all of our others, is that my workstation only
> has 6 bits-per-pixel.  

FYI:  It's possible the xgif you have can't handle 6-bit displays, but
if so, it's not a very robust implementation.  I've sent Phil a copy
of an xgif that works very nicely on my series 300 running HP-UX 7.0
and handles my 6-bit display with no problems.

Gary