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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: /etc/magic entry for GIF files?
Message-ID: <1990Oct31.233021.27248@cti-software.nl>
Date: 31 Oct 90 23:30:21 GMT
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matthew@sunpix.east.sun.com (Matthew Stier - Sun Visualization Products) writes:

	0       string          GIF             GIF image 
	>3      string          87a             (version 87a) 
	>3      string          89a             (version 89a)

This entry also lists the resolution of your GIF image:
(at least when your CPU has the same byte order as the 80386)

0x0	string		GIF		GIF picture
>0x3	string		87a		 - version %s
>0x3	string		89a		 - version %s
>0x6	short		>0		(%d
>0x8	short		>0		x %d)

Now if I only could list the number of colours!
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