Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Compressing pictures Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 21:34:05 GMT References: <1990Aug27.154419.25882@mcs.anl.gov> <1990Aug28.192024.22435@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <2781@network.ucsd.edu> <1990Aug29.155925.17597@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 11 Doesn't GIF allow a "plug-in" compressor? Surely it doesn't _require_ one to use LZW... does it? If not, then perhaps GIF and other archivers need a ``standard'' (haha) interface to compression schemes. Some of the MSDOS terminal programs seem to provide a standard interface to file transfer protocols. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** rec.pyrotechnics: "Blow up or shut up."