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From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: graphic file interchange format
Summary: look at the GIF standard
Message-ID: <361@mks.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 15:05:00 GMT
References: <782@daisy.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <782@daisy.UUCP>, turner@daisy.UUCP (D'arc Angel) writes:
> 
> Is there a simgle format or at least a conversion program that will
> let me use a picture file generated on a pc on a mac or atari.st or
> any other permutattion of machines ????

If you mean something to convert Neochrome pictures to an IBM format,
I'm not sure. But, if you mean "is there a common format" then I
suggest you have a look at the GIF standard developed on CompuServe.
They have documents generally available which outline how it works,
and if you need sample code you can become a GIF developer. There are
also GIF encoders and decoders for most machines which can be
downloaded. The GIF standard includes compression, so that most
pictures become smaller. However, the display program I have seen
for the ST is a little slow at putting up the picture.
-- 
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