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From: Fabien Mosen
Subject: .pot files and Unysis
Date: 15 Mar 2001 07:31:03
Message: <3AB0B574.1DFA4907@skynet.be>

I'm wondering : as the .pot files (only known to POV-Ray and Fractint)
are basically .gif's with 65K palette, aren't they subject to the 
Unisys stupid patent problem ?

Fabien.

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From: PoD
Subject: Re: .pot files and Unysis
Date: 15 Mar 2001 07:58:33
Message: <3AB0BC71.6227B764@merlin.net.au>

Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering : as the .pot files (only known to POV-Ray and Fractint)
> are basically .gif's with 65K palette, aren't they subject to the
> Unisys stupid patent problem ?
> 
> Fabien.

I'd say so. A .pot file is just a GIF which is twice as wide with the low bytes in one
half
and the high bytes in the other.

-- 
PoD

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