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From: pedro@cs.mcgill.ca (Sandro MAZZUCATO)
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Subject: Re: compressing gifs
Keywords: compress archive
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.221601.27708@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 27 Apr 91 22:16:01 GMT
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In article <1991Apr27.215625.7689@leland.Stanford.EDU> elmanad@leland.Stanford.EDU (Adam Elman) writes:
>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

Yes in fact it is using the LZW algorithm for compressing the image !


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Sandro Mazzucato                  
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BSc, U2, Computer Science.
McGill University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada