From: a DOT gillett AT virgin DOT net (Andrew R. Gillett) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Error, and more... Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:14:58 +0100 Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19980528163406 DOT 0079ee10 AT wcnet DOT org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.168.63.155 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, article <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19980528163406 DOT 0079ee10 AT wcnet DOT org>, Joseph Schroeder (zack AT acmepet DOT com) wrote: > I have several questions for you all... That I cannot figure out how to > slove or do. First, can allegro display gifs or animated gifs? Quote from the Allegro FAQ: Why can't Allegro read GIF files? Unisys has a patent on the LZW compression algorithm that is used by the GIF format. I want everything in Allegro to be freely usable without any restrictions whatsoever, which means I can't include any code that is subject to licencing or the payment of royalties. Andrew Gillett http://argnet.fatal-design.com/