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From: bradley@xmos.cis.upenn.edu (John Bradley)
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Subject: Re: GIF Programs wanted...
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Date: 17 Jan 89 19:51:57 GMT
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>> I'd very much appreciate it if someone could point me towards some code
>> (pref. anonymous ftp) that will do a "standard-image-to-GIF" conversion
>> and/or a "GIF-to-standard-image" conversion.  

>Just what is a 'standard-image'?? I have an amiga it's standard is IFF
>I have a GIF program that does the conversion between IFF and GIF and
>I use a prgram called Grabber, to snapshot GIF pics into IFF.

Hadn't realized the term 'standard image' was all *that* vague.  Guess it was,
though.  What I had in mind was an m*n frame buffer, one byte per pixel, where
byte 0 is at (0.0), byte m-1 is at (m-1,0), byte m is at (0,1), and byte
(m*n-1) is at (m-1,n-1).  You know, the same way video memory is ALWAYS 
organized ('cept on the Apple II...).

Anyhow, it'd be Real Nice is somebody could send me an ANYTHING-to-GIF 
conversion program.  I can deal with whatever bizarre format the 'ANYTHING'
happens to be in, probably.  What I don't want to get involved with is the
whole LZW compression algorithm scene...

Thanks in advance.

John Bradley  -  University of Pennsylvania  -  bradley@cis.upenn.edu