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In article <1992Aug7.034609.28522@wam.umd.edu> kkw@wam.umd.edu (Katarina  
Wong O'Gara) writes:
> I couldn't find this in the FAQ (in fact, I couldn't find the FAQ at  
all)
> but is there some straightforward way to download a GIF file from Usenet
> and strip the headers/footers, concatenate and uudecode using the NeXT?
> 
> I know how to do all this in the Mach window, but wonder if there is  
some
> especially neat way to do it with NewsGrazer.  Any advice?


Yes, there is an especially neat way. :)  After selecting the article from  
inside the newsgrazer, choose uudecode from the tools menu.  It will strip  
the header/footer and uudecode the file (in /tmp), and put its icon in the  
little box to the right of the date.  If it is a .gif file, and if you  
have say ImageViewer in your path, then it will be an imageviewer icon,  
and you need only double click it to view it.  If the .gif file is split  
up into several parts as is usual in alt.binaries.pictures.misc, you  
select all the articles at the same time, then select uudecode.  Note, the  
articles need to be in the right order for this, and if they are not, just  
hold the control key and "drag" them to the proper order...  Again, all  
the articles are uudecoded, then catenated.

> Also, how does one create a background file (using  a GIF or jpeg file,
> if possible) that will stay on in the background when using the machine?
> 
> Thanks for any and all help...

I usually use Scene.  But it only reads .tiff files, so I use ImageViewer  
to save it as .tiff first, then use scene. (In scene, select screen from  
the panels menu after opening a .tiff file.  Easy to figure out from  
there...)  The ImageViewer comes with a program "image" which you can use  
from unix to convert between file formats, e.g. image file.jpg -o  
file.tiff.

Send me email if you have more specific questions or need any of the above  
programs I mentioned...

Michael Glenn (fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu NeXTmail welcome!)