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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 1 Mar 1994.
Re: a problem with ASCGIF.EXE conversion program

Re: a problem with ASCGIF.EXE conversion program

In <ala...@netcom.com>,
ala...@netcom.com (The Renaissance Man) writes:
>
>First the good news:  There's nothing wrong with your GIFs.
>
>Now the bad news:  ASCGIF, as posted, is fucked.  It reports ALL GIF files
>as corrupted, whether they're 87a or 89a.  I've fixed about 6 or 7 bugs 
>in the code, but there's still a couple of subtle ones in there that I
>haven't found yet.  Someone supposedly posted a fixed version, but it
>never showed up here.  I'm making slow progress on it, because it's some 
>of the most hideous, wretched, unreadable C code I've ever seen.  The 
>thought that this was posted by someone from Bellcore is scary....

i can only laf...                             ^^^^^^^^

and i can't tell you why, either.  ;-)

all opinions are my own, etc.

(btw, laf is an intentional misspelling of laugh)

	david lindes

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Subject: Re: a problem with ASCGIF.EXE conversion program
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