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From: ken@hpclkms.HP.COM (Ken Sumrall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Re: GIF Pictures
Message-ID: <1270019@hpclkms.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Aug 89 18:27:09 GMT
References: <4033@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>>   If you have access to FTP, one place you can get GIF sample pictures is the
>>SIMTEL20.ARPA archive. Do a cd to PD1:<MSDOS.GIF> 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...

Did you set the proper transfer mode before getting the files.  If you use
binary mode, it probably won't work.  simtel20 is a DEC machine with an evil
word size of 36 bits.  What you probably want is type tenex.

This is explained in some README document on simtel20 in the login directory
if you want more info on the topic.

Ken Sumrall
ken%hpclove@hplabs.hp.com