Re: LOT'S OF TIME ON MY HANDS!!!!!

In news:879a34cc-eed1-445f-8381-ddf9915761e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
ramswell <shifty_butch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 16, 6:14 pm, Andreas Kohlbach <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ramswell wrote on 15. June 2008:

#2) What's the difference between .BMP, .GIF, .JPG, and .KOA files
(not their meanings necessarily, but ACTUAL DIFFERENCES between the
file types themselves that MAKE THEM DIFFERENT)?..

Don't know of KOA (Koala Paint?). The extensions just say how image data
is structured (compressed more or less, possible bit depth etc.).


Yes Koala was my guess too. So your telling me that they are
abbreviations for the types of programs that I need to use to open and
run them then?

The filename extensions don't refer to the programs that can use the graphic
files -- they refer in some way to what type of graphic file they are. BMP
is a contraction of "bitmap", GIF is the acronym of Graphic Interchange
Format, JP[E]G is the initials of Joint Photographers Expert Group... and I
don't know what KOA is, either.

So, the extension helps identify what type of graphic data file it is, and
each type of graphic file has its own structure for storing data. On the
mainstream-computer side, there are many programs that can open these
various file types, correctly interpret the data contained in them, and
render the images onscreen or otherwise manipulate them. On the Commodore
side, the software choices (and graphic hardware, and RAM...) are much more
limited.

Brian
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