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From: jpenne@ee.ualberta.ca (Jerry Penner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Gifs
Message-ID: <1991Jan20.071959.11652@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 20 Jan 91 07:19:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jan17.001415.18763@isc.rit.edu> awg0971@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>I have been trying for a while now to use GIFs from many FTP sites and none of
>them have been working. The biggest FTP site was ticsys.tamu.edu which has
>hundreds. By the color count, some seem to be from the Mac. But if I try to
>convert them, SHR convert gives me an unknown error. ANy help on this or info
>on a good GIF site for Apple ][s would be most appriciated.
>
>                            -King Lerch 

Well, the first thing to ask yourself is, "Did I set binary mode?".  FTPing
text files should be done in ASCII mode but when sending GIFs or other 
"binary" based files, you must set binary mode so that certain characters 
do not get translated into something else during the transfer.  Usually, the
0x0A chars get translated into 0x0D's or vice versa.  Whatever, it will 
screw up your GIF.  The second thing to ask is?  How are you transferring
from your host system (Unix, VMS, ???) to your Apple?  Some things, like
Unix Xmodem also deal with binary or text files, and again you must set 
binary mode for the above reason.  Hope that helps.
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    Jerry Penner	alberta!bode!jpenne	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada