MAG (GIF archiver)
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* {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv20/029A/MAG02.ZIP|MAG v0.1}} (DOS software) | * {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv20/029A/MAG02.ZIP|MAG v0.1}} (DOS software) | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:33, 26 May 2021
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.
[edit] Discussion
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.
If a GIF file is extracted from a .MAG archive by a standard unzip utility, the result will be a ".GIF" file that's not in GIF format. Instead, it will be in a non-compressed image format we might call "MAG intermediate format".
[edit] Identification
There's probably no simple way to distinguish a .MAG file from a standard ZIP file, just by its contents.
The intermediate files made by MAG v0.1 are observed to start with ASCII "MAG000".
[edit] Software
- MAG v0.1 (DOS software)
