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From: west@gsrc.dec.com (Jim West (Stealth Contractor))
Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Compressing GIF images
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Date: 11 Jul 90 15:08:41 GMT
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In article <127225@csb8.encore.com>, ddisimo@encore.com (Darrin DiSimo) writes...
-Hi,
- 
-    I was wondering if anyone knows of a PD compression
-program for GIF files.  Gif files are taking up a lot of disk
-space and I know regular compression does not work.
- 
-                            Thanks a lot in advance.
-                            Darrin.


  Based on my rudimentary knowledge of the LZ compression algorithm, which is
what GIF uses, I don't think you will find anything to compress the files any
smaller than they are now.

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