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From: seand@CS.UOREGON.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: GIF files not universal?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 01:50:45 GMT
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I thought that the purpose of GIF format files was to allow the easy
transfer of images from one computer system  to the other, but with the
problems I'm having I don't know about that.  I have downloaded (ftp)
image files from a number of net sources, including wuarchive, simtel20,
and apple.apple.com.  When  I download files from the mac subdirectory 
I have no problems, and the image is viewable.  However, when I attempt
to view images culled from the msdos sections of the same sources, while
I can view them on my pc-clone, my mac won't touch them.
Any ideas?  My mac hardware is a IIcx with 8 bit color video.

Sean Daly
seand@cs.uoregon.edu