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From: pete@wlbr.EATON.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: GIF Standard
Message-ID: <1146@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 13:10:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 23 13:10:38 1987
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Organization: Eaton IMS, Westlake Village, CA
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Keywords: Graphics OS9 Coco3 Standard

Jim - 

Re: The GIF Standard and PD...

I talked to the PICS Forum people this weeekend. Apparently their
primary concern is correctness, not necessarily self oriented issues.
I am trying to scrape away the red tape to see what can and can't be
done with GIF. Let's hope we *can* use it.. it'd be a terrible waste
of effort if we can't. Also, we lose access to THOUSANDS of ready to
view GIF files from a variety of machines. Heck - I've collected over
2 Megs of this stuff in the past month, and they keep uploading faster
than I can download it.

I understand your need for animation support, so perhaps the GF9
format has a place even if GIF is available. I just hate to see the
wheel reinvented, if it's avoidable. More news as it's available.


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