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<p></p> <table class='diff diff-contentalign-left'> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 15:33, 26 May 2021</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 19:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Software ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Software ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv20/029A/MAG02.ZIP|MAG v0.1}} (DOS software)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>&#160;</td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv20/029A/MAG02.ZIP|MAG v0.1}} (DOS software)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Archiving]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Recompression]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&#160;</td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:ZIP based file formats]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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<p>Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Graphics |extensions={{ext|mag}}, {{ext|gif}} |released=1996 }} &#039;&#039;&#039;MAG&#039;&#039;&#039; (Mark Archiver for GIF) is a compression/archiving utilit...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{FormatInfo<br /> |formattype=electronic<br /> |subcat=Graphics<br /> |extensions={{ext|mag}}, {{ext|gif}}<br /> |released=1996<br /> }}<br /> '''MAG''' (Mark Archiver for GIF) is a compression/archiving utility, featuring a special way to compress [[GIF]] image files that usually improves the compression ratio. It was developed by Mark Gauthier, and distributed as shareware.<br /> <br /> == Discussion ==<br /> A .MAG archive uses standard [[ZIP]] format, except that any GIF files contained in it require special processing to decompress. After decompression, a GIF file will be functionally equivalent to the original, but not necessarily byte-for-byte identical.<br /> <br /> If a GIF file is extracted from a .MAG archive by a standard unzip utility, the result will be a &quot;.GIF&quot; file that's not in GIF format. Instead, it will be in a non-compressed image format we might call &quot;MAG intermediate format&quot;.<br /> <br /> == Identification ==<br /> There's probably no simple way to distinguish a .MAG file from a standard ZIP file, just by its contents.<br /> <br /> The intermediate files made by MAG v0.1 are observed to start with ASCII &quot;{{magic|MAG000}}&quot;.<br /> <br /> == Software ==<br /> * {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv20/029A/MAG02.ZIP|MAG v0.1}} (DOS software)</div>

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