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In article <3253@nunki.usc.edu> malczews@nunki.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) writes:
>If "GIF is GIF is GIF", why are there available so many stripper types of
>programs for all the other PCs that apparently strip some type of special
>header for the Mac GIF variant so they may be viewed on those PCs?

Some things need to be clarified here: where were the pictures produced
(which program output them as GIF), and how are they being transferred.

There are no "GIF variants"; that's like saying "SCSI variant" (oops, maybe
not).  Anyway, it's possible that some special header is being added; I'd
guess 128 bytes.  Try BLOADing a picture at about $2000 and see if the
GIF87a header shows up at about $2080...

GIF *is* GIF *is* GIF; while there might be some additional headers/footers,
any change to the format of the stored image would render it non-GIFian.

>  -- Frank Malczewski

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