The answers to the question I asked last week:

> Does anyone know whether the IMGGIF graphics device driver is included > with the 6.09E release for MVS and CMS?

have been just as numerous in private e-mail as they have been on the list. (0)

So, I'll answer the question myself.

I think I found the answer when reading the relatively new SI newsletter for MVS users called 'MVS SAS Direct'. Check it out at

http://www.sas.com/service/doc/periodicals/mvsdirect/Current/index.html

The newsletter answers such important questions as 'Why MVS SAS?' and 'What is 6.09E?'. Under the latter question is a link to a section that summarizes the new features and under the SAS/GRAPH new features is the line:

This release also offers new device drivers for PostScript devices with ISO 8859 Mods and PostScript devices with ISO Latin1 Encoding.

I therefore conclude that the IMGGIF driver is not included.

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