Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!im4u!ut-sally!ut-emx!jcc
From: jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Chris Cooley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: GIF files...
Message-ID: <1578@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 04:48:03 GMT
References: <1292@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Lines: 35
Keywords: GIF
Summary: Compuserve & Image...

In article <1292@hubcap.UUCP>, mmccann@hubcap.UUCP (Mike McCann) writes:
> Can anyone possibly send me any graphics files they may have in the GIF
> format (I already have the files from sumex and the one posted on
> comp.binaries.mac --- any others will be greatly appreciated)?  Im
> trying to impress my boss with the ability to store and manipulate 256
> color, MacII graphics files.  Someone suggested trying CompuServe but I
> dont have access to it (neither does anyone else that I know).

I do, and I doubt I'll be doing any more transfers from there in the
near future.  The download speed is too slow (we're talking something
like 50% of full-speed (be it 300, 1200, or 2400).  I spent over an hour
pulling down 2 256-color shots and a few 16-color shots.)  There's got to
be a cheaper way to do this.  I've never been too impressed with Compuserve,
and this doesn't boost my opinion of them, either.

There is, however, a *public domain* program out called Image (now ~ v. 0.62)
that is nothing short of INCREDIBLE in what it can do with images.  There's
a small fix to be able to work with GIF files (gotta convert 'em to a PICT 
file and then ResEdit in the CLUT--with help of the Klutz DA), but once there
there's zooming, touching up, ...  So much power that I could not give it
the justice it merits in a simple post.  (Not that my personal babbling about
it is much better... :-)

I'll post it up to the net ASAP.  It takes quite a bit of memory (it likes
abount 1500K) but will run in less. (Some features will be disabled, like
the 300K clipboard...)

Oh, by the way, I'll send you a few GIFs that I have...

> Thanks in advance,
> Mike McCann

As they say in Jamaica, "No problem, man."

					--chris