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Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] xpm, gif, png & map view!
From: Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 21:11:00 -0300 
On Mar 06, Matt Busigin decided to present us with:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Martin Willemoes Hansen wrote:
> 
> #xpm: easy to use but not compressed
> 
> XPM also is the UNIX/X standard.  There are many ways of compressing them.

What does "standard" matter? M$-like crippling software for
"backward compatibility"? Yuck.

IMHO png would be the "right thing to do"; but if there is
opposition, xpm.gz might do the trick.

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