Need  information as to how to get the .map information from a displayed .gif WITHOUT going to color cycling and entering <s>.
If that can not be accomplished, is there any way to compare .map files to eliminate duplicates?  I have a program which compares .map files and lists dups, but if the .map is cycled, then saved, and compared it doesn't list a duplicate since the first RGB entry is different due to the rotation.  What I am looking for is a comparision for duplication regardless of the placement of the RGB values as long as they are in the identical sequence between .map files.
I have multimap.exe, which is fine for comparision if the .map has not been cycled.  I have a .gif for which I am trying to find the .map.  I did, from a screen display, cycle the colors; then entered <s>, saved to an entered file name.  Exited fractint, found the saved file and ran multimap.exe to find the .map in my .map directory.  No duplicate found, although I know it is there.
I then did a test:  Took a known.map file, cycled it, saved as above and did a multimap comparision.  No duplicate was found, and it is my guess that the cycling rotated the RGB order so that a linear comparision, while correct, is not accurate.
Am I pissing into the wind?  Or is there a solution somewhere?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Even negative responses.
 
David M Fisher  sunfish@intercom.net