Re: How to transfer GIF files from MAC to Unix?

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From: Guillaume Simonnet
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 08:20

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In article <13690@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, dmnhieu@riemann.math.purdue.edu (Duy-Minh Nhieu) writes:
|> I have some trouble of transfering GIF files to unix.  I use ftp to get the
|> files.  The problem is that after transfering these files to unix, the display
|> program on unix would not be able to read them.  What can I do?


 You must be in binary mode when transfering GIFs.
 Use the BINARY command in ftp before transfering.

 I use it, between GIFConverter (Mac) and xloadimage (sun),
it works well.

Hope this helps.

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