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From: pete@wlbr.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Proposal for Graphics Format Std.
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Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 19:05:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  9 19:05:57 1987
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In article <2117@lsuc.UUCP> jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) writes:
>
>Proposal for Graphics File Format Standard
>For OS-9 / Color Computer Users
>
>     I've been waiting for a while now for some sort of standard
>to arise, but nothing has happened.  As such, this is what I'm
>going to use for now.  If something better comes along, I state
>right now that I intend to abandon this format.  

Uh Jim - the CIS folks have a rather versatile standard for graphics
interchange that was released earlier this year. It's called GIF,
which is short for GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT. It has no practical
limitations of resolution, number of colors, or whatever. It is
machine independant (many popular machines have GIF viewers available
in the public domain), and the files are compressed.

A while back, the VEF style files were the rage in the CIS OS9
community, as that's all we had. A few tools are capable of saving,
loading, and massaging VEF files (VEF is essentially a memory dump of
HIRES VDG memory). Mike Dziedzick wrote a suite of GIF tools
(a viewer, an information scanner, a GIF->VEF converter, a VEF->GIF
converter, a VEF slide show, and a GIF slide show), and I understand
that he will be working on GIF capable terminal program. The VEF files
may also be converted to ColorMax3 and probably Coco Max3 formats for
easy diddling.

I'd like to recommend that before we create another
protocol/standard/format/whatever, that we investigate this one. It
looks like a goody, and is machine independant to boot!


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