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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GIF Viewing again and again (summary)
Keywords: GIF, conversion, IFF
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Date: 31 Aug 90 23:53:30 GMT
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In article <5373@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> djb1@ukc.ac.uk (David Beckett) writes:
>I tried FBM (Fuzzy BitMaps) off a fish disk. It also didn't work due to memory
>problems. I even tried compiling the UNIX PBMPLUS toolkit on my Sun 4/330 but
>it crashed. So much for portable software.

Did you use gcc?  If so, that's why it crashed.  (gcc doesn't get
along with the sparc architecture at the current release.  Has
to do with how structs are passed on the stack, I think.)

I use pbmplus for *all* of my image conversion needs.

And it's neato. :-)
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