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From: q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner)
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Subject: Re: GIF for an apple ][c
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Date: 16 Mar 90 16:52:30 GMT
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In article <12359@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 
> It is, and in fact when I last tried IIGIF some time ago it worked fine
> with genuine GIF-format files.  However, some BBSes (notably those on
> Macintoshes) may download your GIF files with additional header garbage
> stuck on the front of the file; if the GIF viewer doesn't try to skip
> such leading garbage it won't think the file is in GIF format.  (A true
> GIF format file begins with the ASCII characters 'GIF87a'.)

Get a program called MACDOWN by (I think) Jason Harper.  It strips off the
header 'garbage' on Mac BBS's.  (the garbage is really the MacBinary Header)

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