Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!elmanad
From: elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: compressing gifs
Keywords: compress archive
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.215625.7689@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Apr 91 21:56:25 GMT
References: <11442@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
Lines: 13

In article <11442@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hartlemp@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Michael P Hartley) writes:
>
>   Is there some way to compress/archive gif files?  I have
>tried the normal archivers (zip, arc, lzh, ect...) and
>they can only store the gif.  No compression.  I would
>appreciate pointers to some gif archiver.
>
My understanding is that the reason that zip, arc, lzh etc. cannot
compress a gif image is that the gif file format itself is already
compressed, and other compression software cannot compress it further.

Adam Elman
elmanad@leland.stanford.edu