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From: rogers@orion.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: GIF  just what is the format?
Keywords: GIF PBM VGA FOO
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Date: 22 May 89 23:55:33 GMT
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Seeing as how my VGA board will be here tomorrow and I will be 
heavily into color graphics, can someone tell me what GIF 
(Graphic Interchange Format, right?) is?  I mean exactly what is the
format.   While your at it, can someone tell me exactly what a PBM
(Portable Bit Map) is?  I have done a lot of graphics programming at
work (using Halo 88 and GC Lisp), but I am a newcomer to it at home.
(meaning I have time to look at things that are interesting, instead of
just programming one application in one specific environment [which is
fun, too].

P.S. Does anyone have anything BAD to say about the NANAO 9070s or the
Orchid prodesigner ? [it's to late on the Orchid, but I haven't scraped
together the 1k for the NANAO yet]

 Brynn Rogers    Honeywell S&RC        rogers@src.honeywell.com
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