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From: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: RFC - comp.binaries.gif
Message-ID: <13090@santra.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 88 22:51:54 GMT
References: <4358@dasys1.UUCP> <15200014@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In article <15200014@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>same way; somebody's paying for all this, after all.  And I don't see that
>such files provide much real benefit per byte, either--all they are
>(usually) is entertainment.  While there are groups devoted to entertainment,
>they aren't pushing megabytes through uucp links...

If the pictures were interesting or of better quality (at least 64 gray
values or 256 colors), I wouldn't have anything against a GIF group. But
since most GIF files are useless, I vote that we write programs to convert
apple II exec files to binary and uudecode the PC files. I just tried some
GIFs from comp.binaries.apple2 and comp.binaries.ibm.pc. I had to write a
short program to convert the apple II hex code to a binary file and I had
to uudecode the PC files, but it didn't take any more time than the usual
Mac downloading takes.

The pictures from the Apple II group were a lot better than the PC GIFs.

Juri Munkki
jmunkki@santra.hut.fi
jmunkki@fingate.bitnet