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From: paul@hpldola.HP.COM (Paul Bame)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: online database graphics
Message-ID: <11390008@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 4 May 88 15:11:01 GMT
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About the "standard" format for graphical images.  The GIF format
was developed (or licensed) by Compuserve so there's definitely a
standard there.  For more details about GIF, see recent postings
in rec.arts.startrek.  It is basically a compressed bitmap image
- not the same kind of thing you were thinking about (which I'd
like too - for Un*x mail if nothing else).  It uses LZW
compression and reasonable-sized images tend to be about 11-14
Kbytes (digitized B&W photos 640x400 I think) which makes
transfer at 1200 baud not too bad.


	--Paul Bame