Re: archiving GIF files on the GS

[meekins@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins)]

In article <2B26FEB9.24825@ics.uci.edu> jimmys@ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
>
>I was wondering if anyone's figured out a way to archive GIF files on
>the GS.  As far as I know, GIF files can't really be compressed,
>in terms of saving space.  GSHK was no help at all.  Five files
>totalling 1604K compressed down to 1599K (woooo, I saved 5K!) with
>GSHK 2.0. And the demo version of AutoArk (noticed how they changed
>the _c_ to a _k_, AutoArc must be someone else's trademark, etc.)
>was no help at all.  I understand (or believe I understood) that graphics
>can't really be compressed to save space, unless we want to have a
>Jpeg compressor for the GS (which we don't.)
>
>Does anyone know if the soon to be released, HardPress, will be effective
>in compressing files like GIF files?  (Andy M.- would you like to share
>your thoughts with the rest of the class? :)
>
>Or should I just get a bigger HD?  Gosh, never thought I would see the day
>when 180 megs isn't big enough... (and I used to marvel at having 2
>Disk ][ drives! :-)
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Jimmy

GIF files are already compressed internally. In fact, GIF files internally
use the same compression as ShrinkIt, and becuase of this, there really 
isn't anything left for it to compress.

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