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From: jokim@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John H. Kim)
Newsgroups: alt.toon-pics,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: GIFs on the Mac, again
Message-ID: <11998@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 4 May 91 05:19:35 GMT
References: <1991May3.215805.15155@rice.edu>
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In article <1991May3.215805.15155@rice.edu> tjonker@rice.edu writes:
>
>I save the GIFs on my SPARC account, then uudecode them.  After this,
>I can view the files just fine using XV.  No problem.
>
>So now I try to look at them on my Mac at home. ... I started up Giffer
>..., but when I tried to open it, Giffer complained the "This file is
>not in GIF format", or something to that effect.

I think the Mac needs some stuff added to the beginning of a GIF file
before you can view it.  I'm not sure because I don't own a Mac, but
I've seen programs that strip this stuff off so you can view Mac-viewable
GIFs on other systems.  I've crossposted to comp.sys.mac.misc in the
hope that someone there can give an authoritative answer:  What's the
correct, full procedure for transferring GIF files from a uuencoded
file to a format viewable on the Mac?
-- 
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