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Article #593Re: GIF questions
From: David L. Crow
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:55
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:55
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mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:
>A friend scanned in some photos on a Mac into TIFF format, then used
>Photoshop to convert the TIFFs to GIFs. When he FTP'd (gee aren't
>these acronyms fun?) the GIFs to an archive site, they ended up as
>filename.GIF.bin files, meaning (I think) MacBinary II format. I
>tried downloading one of these to a PC and using a GIF viewer, and
>it said the GIF format was invalid.
If it's a data file (ie the Mac file did not have a resource fork --
and a GIF file shouldn't), then just strip off the first 128 bytes.
This is the MacBinary header and can be safely removed as long as the
Mac file only had a data fork.
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Newsgroups: alt.graphics.pixutils Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!waterloo.austin.ibm.com!crow From: crow@waterloo.austin.ibm.com (David L. Crow) Subject: Re: GIF questions Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id) Message-ID: <crow.724830936@waterloo.austin.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 05:55:36 GMT Distribution: na Reply-To: crow@austin.ibm.com References: <1992Dec20.032056.21576@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Organization: IBM AWS Graphics Systems Lines: 18