Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/28/05 03:46

mbstevens wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> Mike wrote:
>>
>>> I cut and pasted an animated gif off of my website that I had made and
>>> when i opened up this file on my computer and viewed it with Explorer,
>>> I could not view the source code (this option on the pull down menu was
>>> dimmed). Anyone know why??
>>
>>
>>
>> Because a GIF is a binary file, view source is for textual data.
>>
>
> The op needs to download a hex editor that gives several different
> views of the file. Ghex and Khexedit are on my machine. I don't
> remember what's available for Windows, but I do remember using one often
> years ago. I'm thinking maybe one came with the Borland compilers or
> Norton Utilities. To make sense of what's going on, info on the .gif
> file formats will also be needed.
NU's Diskedit, WinBrowse (viewer only), HexPert...

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Jonathan
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