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From: rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: digiview -> IFF
Summary: Neptune pictures from anonftp at Stanford -- problems with .Z
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Date: 2 Sep 89 14:23:39 GMT
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In article <DEEIIU@mplvax.sri.com> MSW@mplvax.sri.com (Mark S. Williams) writes:
>I got the Neptune pictures from Stanford and uncompressed them on my
>amiga. Now what do I do - I don't have DigiView. Is there some way to 
>convert a DigiView picture to IFF?
>
> 

I got a few of those pictures as well.  Namely:  bigtriton.Z crater.Z whole.Z
spots.Z.  I was under the impression that they COULD be displayed on the
amiga.  The message said it could be displayed with digiview 3.0 software.
 
After I ftp'd the files over to my account, I uuencoded them, and used
kermit to transfer the file.  Then localy, I un-uuencoded (the machine I'm
on seems to kill binary transfers 100% of the time :-( the files and had 
no errors.
 
The file still had the .Z ending.  What is that ending?  I tried un-zooing
the file, but it didn't recognise it.  Ditto for arc etc... To display, I tried
transfer 24, and digiview-3.0 software, but they wouldn't even load.
 
Can sombody reply? (to the net, my account probably will be wiped shortly)
 
thanks