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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: vgif GIF-viewing program (Re: "Error in EXE program" machine lockup)
Message-ID: <10898@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 May 88 13:48:00 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1795@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:

| the sucker i had the most trouble with was 'fastgif'.  it's fast alright,
| but it hangs the machine on non-existent or corrupted .gif files.  grrrr.

  How did you select a non-existent file from it's menu of what's in the
directory?? It doesn't hang on ALL corrupted files, I keep a few
beauties around for testing, and it barfed and recovered okay.

  The thing I like about fastgif is that it will do a credible job of
putting VGA/Amiga multicolor images up on an EGA, using dithering. I
would love to have an option to change to grey scale, though, since a
lot of stuff I have looks better on the Hercules than the EGA or VGA.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me