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From: v089pfrb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeffrey C Murphy)
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Subject: Re: Gif specs
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In article <11556@helios.TAMU.EDU>, cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton) writes...
>Could someone please tell me a ftp site, or other means to get some technical
>specs on the GIF picture format...
>Christopher Walton

 If you understand C then there is a free (but copyrighted) program called 
GIFMachine. It includes the source so you can look through it and see how a
GIF file is decoded. This archive is available from anon ftp sites (I got
it from the ab20 [128.155.23.64] archives).

Jeff M. SUNYAB