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Neal Becker writes:
>>>>>> "William" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:
>
>    William> Ok, so enough screaming.  But I've been digging around the
>    William> GIF code and it does appear to be something wonky with
>    William> animated GIFS.  A 100% repeatable problem for me is
>    William> http://www.aventail.com/img/ndownld.gif
>
>    William> Does this crash for everyone else?  The DGIF code is giving
>    William> me a headache.  And does anyone know of freely available GIF
>    William> decoding libraries that are not eligible for obfuscated C
>    William> '98?
>
>The interesting part is that since this gif stuff is part of the standard
>jpeg lib, and since xemacs already supports jpeg, it looks like this might
>be easier than I thought!

  I don't have the full jpeg source floating around, and couldn't find a
specific GIF interface in the jpeg header files.  Could it be as simple as
pumping a GIF file down the standard JPEG routines?

-Bill P.

