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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Aug 1998.
Re: GIF conversions (was: Re: History)

Re: GIF conversions (was: Re: History)

Martin Atkins wrote:
>...
> Er, in my maybesoontobefinished GIF2ASCII converter for line art
> (which will only be released if I am happy with the outputs) it loads
> the GIF onto the screen and reads pixels from the screen.

Hmmm ... you do realize that that would make it difficult to convert
GIFs which were larger than the screen size, don't you? :-)

>                                                           I may be
> able to rewrite it so that it would load into an array, but I don`t
> think you`d be too happy about the programming language it`s written
> in. (No, I won`t say it, it`s to[o] embarassing... I`m learning C now
> I promise :o( )

What ... no, surely not ... QBasic? Or maybe even ... V*sual Basic? Oh,
the shame ...

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