[comp.sources.wanted] What is GIF?

hhptsang@rose.waterloo.edu (Peter Tsang) (12/28/89)

How can I view GIF pictures?  Is there any method to do 
that on a EGA monitor?

Thanks,


Peter Tsang                                              hhptsang@rose.uucp
University Of Waterloo                           hhptsang@rose.waterloo.edu
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada                    ...uunet!watmath!rose!hhptsang

gutierre@paxman.arc.nasa.gov (Robert Michael Gutierrez) (12/29/89)

In article <19478@watdragon.waterloo.edu> hhptsang@rose.waterloo.edu (Peter Tsang) writes:
>How can I view GIF pictures?  Is there any method to do 
>that on a EGA monitor?

The best PC program to view it is called VPIC. Since you have a EGA,
it'll work straight "out of the box" (no mods needed). It's a public
domain viewer that also will save the GIF file into 4 other formats (I
think: Dr. Halo, PCX, LBM (Deluxe Paint II), CUT, and mybe something
else???). It's also got support for about 5 VGA/Super VGA chipsets
(making up about 80% of the VGA boards out there) just in case you go
VGA one of these days.

See if somebody has it somewhere. If not, I'll upload it into my FTP
directory or uuencode it for you (and anybody else who wants it). Do
you use your workstation to view them now??? I always have an anime
character on the background of my Sun 3/80 color system.

>Thanks,

No problem.

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