Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!shelby!portia!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: GIF files Message-ID: <6096@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 25 Oct 89 07:32:47 GMT References: <8910250334.AA01954@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: USENET News System Reply-To: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Organization: UCSC Undergrads Lines: 27 In article <8910250334.AA01954@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> yk4@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Yong Su Kim) writes: > >I would like to download some gif pictures on some FTP sites but I am >unable to do so. I downloaded the files onto the UNIX system and then >I sent the files via Kermit to my GS. I then tried SHRConvert but it >either responded by saying that the file was too long or it responded >by going into some kind of endless loop. I also tried stripping line >feeds but that didn't help. > >Obviously, I am doing something wrong. If anyone can help me, please >leave a message. Thanks The only idea I have is that FTP might not be sending them in binary mode. You must tell FTP to send them in binary for them to work. (Type "binary" at the prompt). I've downloaded them ASCII, they don't work, and then if I do them binary it works.. (Downloading them ASCII was an accident). By the way, is there any work on a FASTER GIF converter? Either a new version of SHRConvert or a wholly different program? That's one of the few speed related things that I really really complain about. Sure speeding up everything else would be good to but that takes forever. I realize that I COULD NOT write a faster one either, so.... --- unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu