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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GIF Pictures?!
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Date: 7 May 88 22:24:59 GMT
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>try uudecoding the file instead..  i have had no trouble reading thenm..
>in a few days i'll be posting a b unch of executionered gif files that
>i got from sumex for the mac..  what we really need though is a gif viewer
>that supports contrast and brightness controls like vision lab does for
>the mac.

"uudecode" sounds like something in Unix.  Where does that leave all
the VMS, TSO, VM/CMS folks?  If there's a more general, portable, compact
alternative to EXECUTIONER 4bit, by all means lets spread it around, but
for goodness sakes let's not proliferate a variety of specialty encoding
schemes that only work on special systems (having one that only works
on an Apple ][ with Interger ROM wouldn't be much worse than a system that
only works on Unix host or a IIgs).

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