Re: [MacPerl] CGI/gif

[online@mactech.com (Jeff at MacTech)]

In article <mac-perl.v03007809b1cd30ee41bd@[209.150.228.35]>, Strider
<Strider@baka.com> wrote:

>I'm writing a CGI, and it's going to be a little different than most- it
>generates its own page (as 'default.pl' or whathaveyou) and calls itself, a
>little like an .asp. Anyway, one thing it needs is a .gif file included in
>it- and although I could use GD and generate it on the fly, it's pretty
>complex (anti-aliased text) and I'd rather just store the info in the
>script, and dump it into a binary file when necessary.
>
>What would be the best way to do that?

Once you make your GIF in an image editing program, you can open that with
a text editor and just copy it--it's just text. You may have to backslash
some of the special characters, though.

This will definitely work, but on the other hand why not just leave the
GIF in a separate (accessible) file and just read it in from your script
at run-time?
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