On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:58:17PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> I am not familiar with gifresize, but I vaguely recall seeing some old
> references to GIF software removing the LZW compression, due to Unisys
> patent claims.  That may be what you are seeing.  What were the
> dimensions of the image after resizing?  (If you multiply the width
> times the height, do you get anything close to the size of 24570 byte
> filesize you wound up with?  (^&)
> 
> There are lots of better formats that GIF:
> 
>  IFF: Made GIF obsolete before GIF was even created.  (^&  Not
>       widely used, and does not compress as well.

Specifically, IFF ILBM format. "InterLeaved BitMap"

There are other IFF formats that aren't pictures. (In case anyone
gets confused on a google search). There was even an IFF patch format
for binaries (updates to SAS/C on the Amiga used this, for example).

Ah, memories.
-- 
Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
"Not even the dumbest terrorist would choose an encryption program that
 allowed the U.S. government to hold the key." -- (Fortune magazine
    is smarter than the US government, Oct 29 2001, page 196.)