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From: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou)
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Subject: Re: pascal GIF viewer
Keywords: GIF pascal graphics
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Date: 5 Jan 91 18:01:37 GMT
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Since people use different languages on different machines with different
monitor/terminal, I think the best way is not to write a viewer program,
but to explain in a few words how image is encoded in GIFF files. Then
one can write a view/decoder in any specific environment.

Personally I would like to see somebody on the net who knows about GIFF 
format to take a few minutes and do the job, since I too have interest in
making .GIF files available to Pascal program.

By the way, I've been trying to locate a book discussing formats of various
image files (GIF, PCX, PIC, etc) without success. If anyone knows such a
book, please post its author, title, etc.