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From: duchow@watnxt2.ucr.edu (John Duchowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: ViewGif2 on '030, Mach 2.0
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Date: 2 May 91 17:23:09 GMT
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Hello,

    I would like to thank everyone for their help with getting ViewGif to 
run under Mach 2.0 on our '030.  In particular, I would like to thank:

    sutter@ozone.usc.edu (Carl Sutter)

for the following advice and for the working version of ViewGif2:

    >The source for ViewGif2 was written for NeXT OS Release 1.x.  It will  
    >not compile under other OS Releases (such as 2.0), and I have not had  
    >the time to update it.  I can, however, send you a binary version  
    >which will run under 2.0

and 

    cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles N. Herrick)

for other neat GIF viewers.  All I had to do was uudecode and off they went !
I also would like to thank:

    Julie_Zelenski@next.com

for the following advice re.: Mach 2.0:

    >Deleted Function Pointers

    >The _poseAs,  _cvtToSel, and _cvtToId function pointers are no  
    >longer supported.  Equivalent functionality can be obtained by  
    >using the class_poseAs(), sel_getUid(), and objc_getClass()  
    >functions.

and:

    Matthew L. Demsey <mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu>

for a warning about:

    >i'm also trying to port this up to NS2.0 - even after you 
    >fix that problem, there will be errors in ViewBitmap and one other
    >segment.

Also,

    declan@remus.rutgers.edu (Declan McCullagh/LZ)

offered the following, simple solution:

    >I had the same problem you did compiling ViewGIF2 under NeXTstep 2.0.
    >My solution?  Instead of playing around with compiler directives and
    >changing the makefile, I cheated and snarfed a copy that was compiled
    >under 1.0.  It works fine.

    I also received some requests for the above programs and, if there are
no objections from either the authors or people who sent them to me in the 
first place, I could (1) either post them here or (2) send them directly to 
people who requested them.  By the way, is there a repository of NeXT 
binaries similar to comp.ibm.pc.bin or an archiver similar to simtel20 
where one may place such source and/or binaries for other people to use ?

    Thanks once again for all the generous help !

                                 - John