1 Apr
1998
1 Apr
'98
6:28 a.m.
On 1998-04-01 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk
:Have you actually checked this? GIF's do compress well, and you are
:correct on loseless... but if you are just GIFfing the scans, they
:do *not* compress well. GIFs are just RLE compressed (That's Run
:Length Encoding for all you non-gfx types out there) and if you
no they aren't - they use a form of lempel-ziv compression, which is why
they tend to compress anything pretty well. they aren't much good on
photos, but anything with a small range of colours is meat to the grist.
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