On 29-Aug-01, 23:08 (CDT), John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote: > The funny part is the selfsame stuff that makes GIF viewers non-free is > blithely in gzip. Ah well, consistency has never been a hallmark of > patents WRT non-free. You're confused. There are plenty of GIF viewers in us/main. The issue is (compressed-) GIF writers. Gzip doesn't generate .Z (compress) files, but gunzip will de-compress them. What's the inconsistency? Steve