From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 19:31:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA17916 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:31:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyberelf.com (www.link-systems.com [168.151.135.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA17906 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 19:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lgp@localhost) by cyberelf.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA03950; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 22:32:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 22:32:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Linda Pedersen To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: animated gif. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > > > > > Hello all, > > Does anybody know how to make an animated gif? > > Is there a FreeBSD software to create an animated gif? > > > > > > animated gif: > > A gif that referenced by netscape produces an animated image. > > I think you're thinking of server-push animations (where repeated GIFs > are downloaded to the client repeatedly). > > I don't know how to implement them (other than they are probably done by > repeatedly reloading the page), and frankly, I don't mind not knowing > either :-) > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > There is server push, gif89 animated gifs and Java. There is no Java enable Netscape port for FreeBSD that I know of, so if you want to view your animation, you may want to try one of the others. You can make a server push script pretty easily with Perl, but the easiest way if you don't want to do the programming is make a gif animation. There is a way to save several gifs in one. See http://members.aol.com/royalef/gifanim.htm for details. --Linda ************************************************************************* * Linda Pedersen * CyberElf Web Page Design * * President, CyberElf Inc * Come visit us at * * lgp@cyberelf.com * http://www.cyberelf.com * *************************************************************************