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Re: GIF viewers in Windows

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From: Anant Kartik Mithal
Date: Tue, 08 May 1990 03:37
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In article <4174@peora.ccur.com> joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) writes:
>In article <1990May5.161352.2716@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, kfort@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Ken Fort) writes:
>> Speaking of GIF files, has anyone ever attempted to make a Windows 
>>application to view these files?
>
>I've used a shareware package called Easel that does this. I found that
>it was very slow. Since VGIF was upgraded to VPIC, I don't use it anymore.

There is a newer version of Easel called GCP, which I find very
useful. It can translate between a number of different graphics
formats. I seem to recall that Easel is copyright someone else, so
they changed the name.

kartik

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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon					
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From: akm@cacofonix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
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Subject: Re: GIF viewers in Windows
Summary: GCP views GIF
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Date: 8 May 90 03:37:45 GMT
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