Re: GIF from Mac to II

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From: billkatt
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1989 19:35

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In article <3253@nunki.usc.edu> malczews@nunki.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) writes:
>In article <IY=PCuy00Xc7E3Gkds@andrew.cmu.edu> cs4n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles Humphrey Silvers) writes:
>>GIF is GIF is GIF.... the format is computer independent. If the GS won't
>>recognize
>>the pictures, then either you are transferring them wrong or the pictures have
>>been
>>corrupted somehow.
>>
>>Sorry I can't be of any more help than that...
>>
>>-Chuck Silvers
>>cs4n+@anddrew.cmu.edu
>
>
>If "GIF is GIF is GIF", why are there available so many stripper types of
>programs for all the other PCs that apparently strip some type of special
>header for the Mac GIF variant so they may be viewed on those PCs?
>
>(I also have similar GIF viewing problems, and I suspect it has to do with
>the fact that the other PCs do not have this special header, thereby causing
>the Mac to choke on GIFs produced on them.)
>
>  -- Frank Malczewski

Those strippers take off the 128-byte MacBinary header.  Mac GIFs do not have
any extra info, but when uploaded to a bulletin board, they are often
mistakenly uploaded in MacBinary format.  They should be uploaded in binary
format.
-Steve Bollinger

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Subject: Re: GIF from Mac to II
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Date: 28 Mar 89 19:35:00 GMT
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