Macintosh & GIF

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From: Otto J. Makela
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1989 15:04

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Can anyone tell me what the special 128-byte header prepended to GIF format
picture files on Macintosh systems contains ?  I have many very good GIF files
which I cannot view because all the Macintosh GIF software seems to assume
that these extra bytes are found at the start of the file... why has somebody
gone to the trouble of messing up a perfectly good graphics format ?
Replies directly to me, please.  If you also are interested in the answers,
drop me a line and I'll send you a summary.

Otto J. Makela (with poetic license to kill), University of Jyvaskyla

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From: makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Macintosh & GIF
Keywords: GIF special format
Message-ID: <523@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 2 Mar 89 15:04:29 GMT
Reply-To: makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Organization: Grand Hall of Justice, Mega-City One
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