Re: *** PLEASE READ -- CONCERNING GIFSCII ***

In article <..> soe...@beansidhe.westfalen.de (Soeren M Soerries) writes:

>> * Ascii Gif Viewer Version 2.1 Mar (c) 1993 John Ferrell
> 
> Hehe, on Linux it compiles well, when it is supposed to convert a gif, it
> mallocs 17 Megs of Memory (good if you have it), keeps your disk busy
> swapping for about 25 minutes and then produces this output:
> 
> .........................
> 
> ... maybe if John Ferrell (the author) is reading this?
> 

Most likely you need to comment out the lines in the FlipWord function.
Or un-comment them depending on the status of your source.  

I tried contacting John Ferrell at his jwf...@juts.ccc.amdahl.com address.
It didn't bounce, but he never responded.  This was a few months ago
when I started work on Gifscii.

For clarification, while ascgif and Gifscii look somewhat similar they
use completely different conversion algorithms.  You can obtain both
of them from ftp.ncsu.edu in the /pub/ncsu/chking/Archive/... directories.

Paul Kline
pk6...@acad.drake.edu   - ignorance exceeded only by inquisitance -

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