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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: GIF integrity checker
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Date: 11 Jun 91 03:11:17 GMT
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In article <6988@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mleichma@vela.acs.oakland.edu (The Hippie) writes:
| Does anyone know of a program that will check through a .gif file and
| determine whether it is in working order or not? Either for Unix or MSdos or
| both would be great. Thanks.

  I just found a program which produces *gobs* of output about a GIF,
and I added a -q option to reduce that torrent to a managable flow. I
use it to determine if a GIF is likely to be good... about 98% of GIFs
which don't get warnings are truely okay.

  I can drop it in the queue if you want.
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