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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: vgif GIF-viewing program (Re: "Error in EXE program" machine lockup)
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Date: 11 May 88 00:02:41 GMT
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Jay Rosenberg complains that the recently-posted vgif program terminates
poorly after drawing a pretty picture on his EGA card.  My addition to this:

I'm using vgif on a CGA card (Z-158 display, actually).  When I use vigf's
2-color option, it appears that the lower portion (one-fifth, maybe?) of the
picture is missing.  That is, the screen is filled, but the picture looks
like it should extend lower.  AND, when I try the 4-color mode, the picture
is twice as wide as the screen -- I can see only the left half of (the upper
part of) the same picture.  Can anyone explain this to me?

Also -- there was a showgif program posted a couple of weeks ago, supposed to
be a CGA viewer.  It looks sort-of like it's in uuencoded form, but there's
a "table" keyword and a list of printable ASCII characters preceding everything
else.  I tried uudecoding it anyway, but the result hangs my machine so that
I must soft-reboot.  So, What is this program?  What format?  Does it work?
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