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    13-Nov-91  00:39:20
Sb: #12967-MM/1 delivery
Fm: Mike Haaland 72300,1433
To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360


Huh?  What do you mean you had to crank up a window to view 'em?  Who did the
GIFShow your using?  I never released any version that only handled 320 x 200. 
But they will "squish" the image onto a 320 x 200 or 320 x 400 screen in the
original GIFShow.  Also the one you probably have did NOT support the palette
chip, cause I wrote it on a prototype that didn't have a palette.  (Boy am I
glad they everyone nudged IMS into having Kev Pease put on eon the board) .
Most 256 color GIF's really suck with only the stock boot up colors.  Now with
8 bits of R-G-B each, instead of 3 bits red, 3 bits green and 2 bits blue, you
can get some very realistic colors.

I guess I should release the latest version that handles GIF89a files. It'll
display ANY GIF and use the correct colors, plus do plain text rendering,
multi-image files.   Best bonus is the speed optimizing done by James Jones. 
(Thanks again JJ!)

Coming to a Lib 12 near you.....

Mike

BTW - I saw Glen mention ViewGIF.  He started with the same basic code I
started with too.  A GIF(TM) to Postscript(R) convertor by Scott Hempill. I
think it's in the Libs here as GIF2PS.C  or something like that.