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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Compressing alt.sex.pictures files
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Date: 30 Aug 90 13:22:00 GMT
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>>GIF files are already compressed.  If you're talking about compressing GIF
>>files, you'll need to figure out a way to compress LZW-compressed files.

>GIF -> MagicFormat and MagicFormat -> GIF converters will cover the rest of
>the problems, just like the overwhelming number of converters now in use.

>Defining a "whole new format" for image data seems to happen once a month,
>and defining a new compression scheme about every three months; I doubt
>One More Format will slow people down much.

What about ppm as a Magic Format ? ppm files are not compressed.
The pbmplus package is widely used and contains all sorts
of tools for converting to mac, gif, tiff and other formats.

ppmcompress would be a valuable addition to the pbmplus package.
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