Re: Is GIF on the ropes?

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Message-Id: <mailto:199501041840.MAA08618@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:35:54 -0500
From: "mailto:Walter_Gilbert@UMAIL.UMD.EDU--Maryland" <WALT@UMDD.bitnet>
Subject:      Re: Is GIF on the ropes?
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

Thanks to Kurt Foss for the warning about .GIF format.  We should all
switch to PKZIP, the generic compression software.  It does a better job
of compressing than .GIF does.

Walter Gilbert, Asst. Dir.                       mailto:Walter_Gilbert@umail.umd.edu
Computer Science Center                        Manager: Teaching Technologies
University of Maryland at College Park  20742-2411              (301)405-6727

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