[Coco] GIF

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Sat Dec 20 00:52:47 EST 2003


CompuServe used to have a good document describing the GIF format.
You could search their site.

NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <KnudsenMJ at aol.com>

> Roger, the LZW I could sort of figure out.  But what I meant is
that the doc
> you forwarded to me did not tell exactly how the bits were packed,
so I could
> not use it as a basis for writing a program to decode GIF.
>
> Anyway, I suspect that BMP would be a better place to start.
>
> What I really need is some sort of RLE (Run-Length Encoding) which
is most
> efficient for black-and-white music scores.  Thanks, Mike K.




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