Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!apple!bbn!bbn.com!slackey From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: GIF Pictures Message-ID: <43761@bbn.COM> Date: 3 Aug 89 18:10:35 GMT References: <4033@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: slackey@BBN.COM (Stan Lackey) Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA Lines: 21 Well I got APAC/GIF off the net, and I asked if anyone could post some pictures for it. I got the following suggestion: In article <4033@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan) writes: > If you have access to FTP, one place you can get GIF sample pictures is the >SIMTEL20.ARPA archive. Do a cd to PD1: and there they are. Use >"anonymous" as your user name and it should let you right in. > Gary Duzan Well I tried it, got in, found some *.GIF which I copied, and they didn't work. APACVIEW responded with like "Not GIF Format" or the equivalent. Just for laughs I tries unarc/crunch'ing them, and it seems they aren't arc'ed. Any suggestions? Or would someone be kind enough to pack up a few and post them? I'd love to see how well APAC works. BTW I did try COLORS.GIF which was in APACVIEW.ARC, it displayed, but it was difficult to tell what APAC was trying to demonstrate with it. It did work though. -Stan