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From: fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Fred Dushin)
Subject: Re: When is a GIF not a GIF?
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.034652.26543@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Sender: fadushin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Fred Dushin)
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 91 03:46:52 GMT

I've had a related problem responses you get.  My problem 
is that when I run gifConverter,
some of the documents I have downloaded are regognized by
gifConverter (in the std opon dialog box), but gifConverter
eventually claims it has run into an error when it tries
to read the files.

Now in itself, this isn't all that strange, but when I try to
peek into these files using QuickGif, I get a similar error
dialogue (except this time it complains about the file's not
being binary (which it is)).  The output to the screen gets all
garbled, so I quit.

Now, still this isn't all that strange, but lo and behold, gifConverter
can now read the files (and flawlessly, at that).  What I have
notoced is that the file type gets converted from document to
QuickGif document, which apparently makes all the difference
to GifConverter.

Fred Dushin  				Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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