[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

graphics interchange format
     
         /gif/, occasionally /jif/ gif, gif
        89a a standard for digitised images compressed with the
        lzw algorithm, defined in 1987 by compuserve cis.
     
        graphics interchange format and gif are service marks of
        compuserve incorporated.  this only affects use of gif
        within compuserve, and pass-through licensing for software to
        access them, it doesn't affect anyone else's use of gif.  it
        followed from a 1994 legal action by unisys against cis for
        violating unisys's lzw software patent.  the compuserve
        vice president has stated that "compuserve is committed to
        keeping the gif 89a specification as an open, fully-supported,
        non-proprietary specification for the entire on-line community
        including the world-wide web".
     
        filename extension: .gif.
     
        file format ftp://peipa.essex.ac.uk/ipa/info/file-formats.
     
        gif89a specification
        http://asterix.seas.upenn.edu/~mayer/lzw_gif/gif89a.html.
     
        see also progressive coding, animated gif.
     
        2000-09-12
     
     
see also:
images lzw algorithm compuserve unisys software patent 
world-wide web filename extension lt;file formatgt; lt;gif89a specificationgt; progressive coding 
animated gif 

Interchange >> I Words
Interchange, definition of term: Interchange
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Graphics >> G Words
Graphics, definition of term: Graphics
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Format >> F Words
Format, definition of term: Format
format_pag1.html

Graphics Interc >> G Words
Graphics Interc, definition of term: Graphics Interc
graphics+interc_pag1.html