Re: GIF without LZW

Stephen> But it's not going to be immediately available on any Stephen> platform besides Red Hat Linux, right? Debian Linux Stephen> doesn't seem to have it, anyway. It's there... I have it installed, though this XEmacs is linked against `gifreader'. Package: libungif3g Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 47 Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim(a)jimpick.com&gt; Source: libungif Version: 3.0-2 Replaces: giflib3g Provides: giflib3g Depends: libc6 Conflicts: libgif3g, libgif2, giflib3g Description: shared library for GIF images (runtime lib) This is a shared library for working with GIF images. . The libungif library is a specially modified version of giflib which is free of the Unisys LZW patent. It can read all GIFs, but only write uncompressed GIFs. If you need to be able to write compressed GIFs, you can install the non-free giflib packages instead (which may not be available on CD). % cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/libungif3g.list /. /usr /usr/doc /usr/doc/libungif3g /usr/doc/libungif3g/README /usr/doc/libungif3g/UNCOMPRESSED_GIF /usr/doc/libungif3g/copyright /usr/doc/libungif3g/NEWS.gz /usr/doc/libungif3g/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/lib /usr/lib/libungif.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib/libungif.so.3 /usr/lib/libgif.so.3.0 /usr/lib/libgif.so.3 Package: libungif3g-dev Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 51 Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim(a)jimpick.com&gt; Source: libungif Version: 3.0-2 Replaces: giflib3g-dev, giflib3g Provides: giflib-dev Depends: libc6-dev, libungif3g (= 3.0-2) Conflicts: giflib-dev, giflib3g-dev, libgif-dev, libgif3g-dev, libgif2-dev Description: shared library for GIF images (development files) This package contains header files needed to compile programs that use libungif. . The libungif library is a specially modified version of giflib which is free of the Unisys LZW patent. It can read all GIFs, but only write uncompressed GIFs. If you need to be able to write compressed GIFs, you can install the non-free giflib packages instead (which may not be available on CD). Package: libungif-bin Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: graphics Installed-Size: 441 Maintainer: Jim Pick <jim(a)jimpick.com&gt; Source: libungif Version: 3.0-2 Replaces: giflib-bin Provides: giflib-bin Depends: libungif3g (= 3.0-2), libc6, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) Conflicts: giflib-bin, libgif3-bin Description: programs to convert GIF images These are some programs that use libungif to convert images. . The libungif library is a specially modified version of giflib which is free of the Unisys LZW patent. It can read all GIFs, but only write uncompressed GIFs. If you need to be able to write compressed GIFs, you can install the non-free giflib packages instead (which may not be available on CD).