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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GIF files for //gs
Keywords: GIF pictures
Message-ID: <10626@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Jul 89 11:11:05 GMT
References: <13032@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1087@ultb.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1087@ultb.UUCP> lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu.UUCP (L.M. Barstow) writes:
>In article <13032@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> pmgannon@athena.mit.edu (Patrick Gannon) writes:
>>I would like to know how to transfer GIF files from the Mac to the GS,
>GIF files are compatible with any computer which can translate GIF files
>into pics.

Well, they're supposed to be.  However, somebody in the Mac world seems
to have decided to store Mac files on, for example, AppleLink PE with
an additional Mac-specific header which must be stripped off to obtain
a genuine unmolested GIF file.  I think there's a Mac header stripper
available from AppleLink PE.