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Article #28367Re: RFC - comp.binaries.gif
From: Juri Munkki
Date: Fri, 20 May 1988 22:51
Date: Fri, 20 May 1988 22:51
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!jmunkki 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 Lines: 20