Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!dewhirst From: dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: When is a GIF not a GIF? Message-ID: <1991Apr2.234030.29422@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 2 Apr 91 23:40:30 CST References: <1991Mar30.184820.7477@parc.xerox.com> Distribution: na Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 37 In article <1991Mar30.184820.7477@parc.xerox.com>, schneide@parc.xerox.com (Kris A. Schneider) writes: > When > AFS opens one of the DOS disks, the icons for the GIFs that will eventually > display have simulated writing on them (kinda like a MacWrite doc). The ones > that won't display just have a blank doc icon. This doesn't change after > the files have been installed on the Mac's hard-drive. You will never get a GIF icon for a file that is added to the desktop in the manner you have described above. When you transfer things over the DOS machine, you lose the MacBinary "header" that describes such things as file type, size, icon, etc. This is not a problem. > What I'm wondering is, is there some > significant piece of info that tells either the applications or the Mac that > they/it are/is looking at a GIF? Is there some way to change the files that > aren't recognized so that they are? I've heard myths and legends surrounding > this wonderful tool known as ResEdit, will this help, where can I find it? Yes and no. GIFfer 1.8 *should* recognize a GIF file regardless, but sometimes it takes a little coaxing. Try this-- Get ResEdit from an online service or sumex. (you own a Mac and you don't own resedit? Does your Mazda have a steering wheel? ) Use ResEdit to"Get info" about the GIF file, and then modify the FILE TYPE and CREATOR to "GIFf" and "Bozo" respectively (the creator change is not crucial). Now giffer will recognize this as a giffer document. If you get a "Sorry buddy, this isn't a GIF file" when you try to open it, you transferred the file improperly on the dos machine or the GIF file is corrupt. Make sure you used a binary ftp mode for a binary file! It takes a REALLY corrupt file for giffer to absolutely refuse to open it. -- []-------------------------------------------------------------------------[] | Internet: dewhirst@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | Famous Last Words: | | Sysop: The MacRocosm BBS 913-841-9446 | "I drank what?" - Socrates | | AOL: Echopapa | "I coulda had a V8" - von Braun | []-------------------------------------------------------------------------[]