"James E. Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> OK, sorry, you are right.  I didn't know that that kludge existed. 

No problem.

> Actually, I'm only partly wrong, in that, the GIF file format *does*
> dictate using non-optionally LZW compression.  Therefore, the
> "uncompressed GIF" kludge could be possibly viewed as a particularly
> bad implementation of the LZW encoding algorithm, under which
> viewpoint, I suppose, it could be considered to fall under the
> Unisys patent (given how broadly these kind of patents are written,
> I would not be surprised if a lawyer out there some could put
> together an argument supporting that contention...).

Interesting point I hadn't thought of.  That would be about typical...

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