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From: dmerrill@hpdtczb.HP.COM (David Merrill)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: compressing gifs
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Date: 29 Apr 91 17:10:22 GMT
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In comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d, 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.

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GIF's are already compressed.  There, that was easy!

Dave