Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!gatech!hubcap!disd
From: disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: GIF format
Message-ID: <1419@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 16:45:41 GMT
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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Those of you who're Star Trek fans and regular rec.arts.startrek readers
will know that there's been some discussion going on there about posting
digitized photos.  There was the usual argument about which format was
best for the job.  Someone took the initiative and posted several
uuencoded binaries of GIF format pictures.  Now I know nothing about GIF
and precious little about IFF, but I think my A1000 would look right
handsome with some Star Trek pictures on its screen.  The poster claimed
that GIF reading programs have been done for many more machines than
competing formats.  I have seen no such program for our beloved machine
so I thought I'd ask this group.  A GIF reader would be dandy, a GIF to
IFF converter would be okay too.  Any ideas?                  

Oh yeah, and let's please not argue the merits of IFF over GIF.  I know
where GIF comes from.  I know that it caters to lots of machines so it
might not be optimal for the Amiga.  I'd just like to see some of these 
images on my monitor.  

Forgive me if this has been beaten to death before.  These newly posted
images have gotten me interested in a subject  which has interested me
very little in the past.

-Gary


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