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</table>Jsummershttp://fileformats.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=MAG_(GIF_archiver)&diff=39909&oldid=prevJsummers: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Graphics |extensions={{ext|mag}}, {{ext|gif}} |released=1996 }} '''MAG''' (Mark Archiver for GIF) is a compression/archiving utilit..."2021-05-26T15:32:20Z<p>Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Graphics |extensions={{ext|mag}}, {{ext|gif}} |released=1996 }} '''MAG''' (Mark Archiver for GIF) is a compression/archiving utilit..."</p>
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'''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 />
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== 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 />
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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".<br />
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== Identification ==<br />
There's probably no simple way to distinguish a .MAG file from a standard ZIP file, just by its contents.<br />
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The intermediate files made by MAG v0.1 are observed to start with ASCII "{{magic|MAG000}}".<br />
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== Software ==<br />
* {{CdTextfiles|nightowl/nopv20/029A/MAG02.ZIP|MAG v0.1}} (DOS software)</div>Jsummers