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When implementing a color desktop:

>Is there any way to get the 256 colors
>that the mac is accessing to be the colors that the pictures
>would like to use?

     There is an init package available from the info-mac/init/ subdirectory
at sumex-aim.stanford.edu called deskpict-package.hqx which includes DeskPICT,
an init which will use an image in startup screen format to make a desktop
background, and another init which will adjust the system colors to match
those used for the desktop image.


Downloading a segmented file:

>I just tried to get some [files] from sumex-aim.stanford.edu,
>and colorpics-part1.hqx (as well as parts 2 and 3) do not un-
>bin hex properly!  One gives out an end of file error, and the
>other two give "end of checksum" errors (as well as showing
>seemingly random file types as opposed to the SIT file type).

     BinHex needs all parts of the file to be put together before it can
successfully decode the file.  The separte parts can be strung together with
the cat command before downloading the file.  The syntax is:

              cat part1 part2 ... lastPart > [name of complete file]

The complete file can then be downloaded.  This method of concatenating files
before downloading saves the hassle of perfoming the same task manually with
a word processor, which will probably get bogged down when trying to manipulate
excessively large documents.

     To eliminate "random" file types, check the beginning of the file
(preferably before downloading) for informative header information like, "This
file must be decoded using BinHex 4.0."  A genuine BinHex'd file will begin
with a colon (:), so delete everything before the first line beginning with a
colon.  If the file was uploaded properly and subsequently downloaded properly,
it should then decode smoothly.



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