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Re: writing gray scale GIFs from a 24bit machine [message #18861 is a reply to message #18814]

Mon, 07 February 2000 00:00

davidf
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Liam Gumley (Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu) writes:

> I used to worry about this problem and all the other myriad possibilities
> for screw-ups in reading the display and writing an image file. But then I
> wrote SAVEIMAGE, thereby putting the intelligence into software where it
> belongs. A close reading of the code might be instructive (heaven knows I
> have to go back and read it to remember what its doing!).

Thank goodness! I thought I was the only one who wrote
programs and then couldn't remember how they worked! :-)

Cheers,

David
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