The following is a program I have written for the PC called GIFBLAST
that compresses GIF files, giving about a 20% savings on most files.
Here's a comparison with the other GIF compressor I know of, GIFLITE:

Advantages of GIFBLAST:
    * The compression is *lossless*, i.e. a compressed and decompressed
      GIF file will always look exactly the same as the original GIF file.
          (Note for techno-dweebs: the restored GIF file may not be
          identical to the original GIF file because the GIF standard
          allows some variation in how images are encoded. However,
          the actual images will be exactly the same).
    * No stupid restrictions on the free version - will compress any
        size GIF files up to 3072x3072.

Advantages of GIFLITE:
    * No decompression step required to view - output is a GIF file
      that can be viewed directly.
    * Somewhat better compression.

I am giving this version out free, though I plan to sell future versions
as shareware. Try it out, pass it around, and let me know what you think!

Isaac Dimitrovsky (dimitrov@lab.ultra.nyu.edu)
"There are players who make things happen, there are players who watch
    things happen, and there are players who wonder WHAT happened."
- Walt "Clyde" Frazier

