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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
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Subject: LHG  Lord High Giffer  (was:Re: IIgs Unzip thing)
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Date: 27 Mar 91 09:18:02 GMT
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In article <50784@apple.Apple.COM> shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes:
>> Todd Whitesel (I GOT THE NAME RIGHT TODD!) wrote this doubly quoted junk
>>I wrote LHG
>>originally in C, tested it in C, and then recoded the critical sections in
>>assembly. When I finally get a decent interface on the !@&*$@! thing you can
>>all see how well this method works. 
>Want to elaborate a little?  What's LHG?  Some variant of LHA?
	
	First, what's LHA?

	LHG is Lord High Giffer, Todd Whitesel's (alleged!) GIF program
that blows the socks off of both SHRConvert [big deal, probably a GIF
converter fully in C would be faster than SHRConvert!] -and- Gif3200
(or whatever Jonah Stitch's program is called).

	I'm just kidding about the "alleged" part.. I just keep harping 
at Todd, since I believe he originally said he'd release it a loooong time 
ago, and I'm itchin' for some new GS programs, even if it's only a GIF
viewer I'll use once in a blue moon.

	Also, I spoke to Jason Harper a week or two ago and he said he
didn't care that SHRConvert was slow as molasses and didn't want to 
get into the speed war... DAMN! I thought I could kinda 'rev him up'
to want to make a converter faster than Jonah or Todd.. Kind of a 
hacker war... (analogous to the races to crack a new ware? Not that 
there have been any new warezzz to crack in the GS world for a long time)

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