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From: wgraff@iiic.ethz.ch (Werner Graff)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Macintosh Graphic Files on the PC
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Date: 28 Feb 91 17:13:32 GMT
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several PD-Utilities exist wich allow to view edit or even convert
MacPaint files of a Macintosh. All theese (in Fact the ones I have)
require an DOS-extension of *.MAC or *.PIC.

My question is the following:
I learned that, if I have thouse files in MacBinary-format on a DOS-disk
all works pretty well. Now there are two points with confuse me (or wich I
wonder about :-) )

	1)	one utility (namely GWS.EXE) allows to convert various
		formats into each other. There I can toggle an option
		MACBINARY-HEADER on or off. But the whole stuff works only
		when this option is on. If I dont have the file in MacBinary
		format (only copied on a DOS-Disk (under AccessPC)) there
		doesn't work anything.

		so: witch format has the file to be in if the option is off ?


	2)	to get a MacPaint file into MacBinary format I had to transfer
		it via FTP (MacBinary on) to a sun and to take it back from
		there with FTP again (MacBinary off, but Binary on). I did 
		this with MacIP 4.0. On this way it was converted to MacBinary
		on its way to the sun and brought back without conversion
		to the Macintosh.

		now: do there exist utilities to convert a file to MacBinary
		     locally on a Mac without causing traffic on the net ?


I hope you dont mind my bad english and someone can answer my questions.

And furthermore: Don't Panic, Be Happy  (or something like that...) ;-)