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From: raveling@vaxb.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: GIF to X11 converter
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Date: 18 Jan 89 17:54:08 GMT
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In article <11880008@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David L. Williams) writes:
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>Robert Heath asks:
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>>Does anyone have a translator for converting picture files in CompuServe's
>>Graphic Interchange Format (GIF) to X11 ?
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>Yes, Jef Poskanzer was kind enuf to implement it in his portable bitmap tools.
>It does not handle color gif's I think. You can find it on expo.


	I've hacked an existing GIF-to-Sun converter by Patrick
	Naughton to translate color GIF files into the image format
	we use locally.  This is an old X10 utility, but if anyone
	would like to hack it for X11, or better yet do a sanitary
	conversion, I can supply source.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@vaxb.isi.edu