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- From: frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: GIF viewers and GIF89a
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:07:51 GMT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- Message-ID: <frank.27.727837671@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov>
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-
- I've been putting together an anonymous ftp site to distribute,
- among other things, GIF files of images from JPL's space
- missions. Besides the picture files we would also like to offer
- people shareware/freeware GIF viewers for various platforms,
- including NeXT.
-
- From Compuserve I had obtained a file called nextgi.Z. Someone
- with a NeXT tells me that this will display GIF87a files ok, but
- it produces an error when you try to view a GIF89a file. (The
- difference between the two formats is that GIF89a files have
- embedded caption text as a "comment extension block." All of our
- GIF files have these embedded captions.)
-
- I consulted the faq for alt.binaries.pictures.utilities, but it's
- not altogether clear what would be a suitable GIF viewer for NeXT
- and whether it or they can work with GIF89a files. One friend
- suggested that maybe NeXTs could work with X-Windows viewing
- software such as xloadimage or xv. Since I don't have access to
- a NeXT, however, I'm unable to test any of this out.
-
- Can anyone make any recommendations? (If you need to get your
- hands on a GIF89a file you can visit our ftp site,
- pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.6.2); the GIFs, all of which are
- GIF89a with embedded captions, are in the directory /images.)
-
- Thanks much if anyone can make any comment.
-
- Frank
- frank@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov
-