Gif Datatype Handler
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As the title suggests, this is a Gif datatype for Jon Watte's excellent 
Datatypes library version 1.3.

To use this program you must have version 1.3 of Jon Watte's DataTypes
library (available from ftp.be.com in the contrib/libraries directory)
installed on your system.  Just drop GifHandler into /boot/DataTypes
and it will be automatically be recognized.

Problems
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It is very slow, does not dither or render very well, only 256 colours,
only has a decode method etc .  Still, its makes apps quite a lot more
useful! 

History
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1.00 - Initial Release
1.01 - Type changed from 'BGIF' to 'GIFf' - to match with BeShow also 
       added several speedups
1.10 - DATATranslate() method fully tested and working, cleaned up several
       internal bugs, no longer allocates a huge lump of memory, but 
       buffers correctly
1.11 - Removed DATAMakeView() for version 1.4 of datatypes library
       Please note, this is only a quick release for BeShow, so you can
       view Gifs now.  The decoding stuff is still awful and I want to 
       add an encoder and preference view, watch this space!

Contact
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Simon Clarke (S.J.Clarke@herts.ac.uk)
Also available, a JPEG datatype in contrib/libraries on a Be ftp site.
Out shortly, BMP and PNG datatypes
