Hi Galt,
there is a patent (owned by unisys). My understanding is that unisys does
not charge any royalty fees if the software is free, however.
At 07:42 PM 8/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, I just did a screen snapshot in windows,
>then pasted it into paint and the saved
>and you get an enormous uncompressed windows
>bmp. Could I use some trick in Rebol/View
>to turn it into a gif file or other nice format?
>I know View must be able to read gif jpg and
>maybe some others in order to render them
>on faces. Can it write them, too?
>Is there some lousy gif patent that lets
>you provide gif readers but not gif writers?
>
>-Galt
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