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From: siri@otc.otca.oz (Siri Hewa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sunview & X-Windows on the Mac
Message-ID: <2607@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 22 Apr 91 23:23:24 GMT
References: <16551@chaph.usc.edu>
Reply-To: siri@otc.research.otca.oz.au (Siri Hewa)
Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia
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In article <16551@chaph.usc.edu> orly@aludra.usc.edu (Victor Orly) writes:
>
>Victor R. Orly  (orly@aludra.usc.edu)
>
>Also, some people misunderstood my previous article, about using Unix
>(X-Window) GIF's on my Mac. I've tried GIFwathcer DA, and GIF-Converter 2.2.
>I still can't view these gifs on my mac (after downloading them) because I get
>"Corrupt GIF" messages from GIFwathcer DA, and "System Errors" (not the kind
>which you have to restart your computer, but withing the program) from
>GIF-Converter 2.2. Any useful ideas out there?
>
For a start if you are using Mac X, why not use "xloadimage" command for the
gif files. This command is quite powerfull, when it come to recognizing,image
formats.
Re. your corrupt problems, make sure when you transfer gif like binarys,you use
BINARY TRANSFER MODE, and when you transfer Mac utility's to Stuffit to Decode
Binhex, then use ASCII TRANSFER MODE.
I hope this is helpfull.


Siri Hewa.
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R&D Visual Communications
Australia.
siri@otc.otca.oz.au