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From: fjs3367@ultb.isc.rit.edu (F.J. Schwalm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: GIF for an apple ][c
Message-ID: <2394@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 90 22:06:01 GMT
Reply-To: fjs3367@ultb.isc.rit.edu (F.J. Schwalm)
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Organization: Information Systems and Computing @ RIT, Rochester, New York
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I remember talk about apple GIF viewing a while ago, but nothing about what was
talked about, so bear with me if I repeat the topic.

I have an Apple ][c, and just recently have obtained some GIF viewers and
pictures for an IBM compatable.  Thinking it might be possible to find a GIF
viewer for my computer, I went out and found one.  It's called IIGIF.  I
thought 'This is great, now I can view some of these pictures at MY computer
instead of at someone else's.'  I was wrong.  It seems that the only GIF files
that this program recognizes are the ones that were 'textified' to executioner
format.  I download the text files, exec them under either ProDOS or DOS 3.3,
and they work great.  Any binary GIF file from anywhere else is not recognized
as a GIF file by this program.  I've downloaded several from the ftp locations
in binary format, dowloaded to my computer in binary format, and transfered
them to ProDOS.  No go.  Just about the only thing I haven't tried yet is
downloading straight to ProDOS, and I can't do that.  My ProDOS emulator
doesn't have any protocols that my host can send with.  

So my question(s) is(are) this(these):
Am I doing anything wrong by not d/l straight to ProDOS?
Is there something wrong with IIGIF that makes regular GIF files inaccessable?
Do I have to get a translation program to modify the regular GIF files?  Poor 
    planning on someone's part if this is true.
Is there another GIF viewer for the Apple ][c?  maybe for DOS 3.3?
Is Kermit incapable of d/l binary files correctly?
Or What?  I didn't hunt for an apple ][c GIF viewer so I couldn't wiew the
    pictures I wanted to see.  I'd like something that works for all standard
    GIF pictures, not on some non-standard GIF format.  It doesn't even make
    sense to HAVE a non-standard GIF format.  I thought standardization was the
    idea to begin with...


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