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Subject: Re: Gifs
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Date: 20 Jan 91 12:46:00 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

	As mentioned in an earlier article, do make sure that all the 
transferring is done in binary. Also make sure that there are no macintosh 
headers on the gif files {a mac program} as these mess up the Apple's gif 
viewers. To check and make sure that there are no headers in the file, after 
downloading the file, use ProTERM {or any other program that can type files} 
and check the first part of the file. If the file does not start out with 
GIF8xx. {xx being wild}, then you have a header. I believe that there are
programs to strip this header. If anyone would like to obtain it,
let me know.
	Also, unless you want to display the GIFS on a graphic system 
better than the IIGS - i.e. a 256 color mac - GIFS of size over 100K aren't 
going to be appropiate for the IIGS right now. Perhaps LHG might change all 
that. Maybe we can start a II gif archive for Gifs that look well on the 
II's...

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