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Subject: Re: GIF pics at apple2.archive.umich.edu
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Date: 11 May 91 19:33:00 GMT
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Todd Bakal said:

>As usual, people post before checking with the source...

T>The GIF files at apple2.archive are all Binscii files.  That's why they
en>end in .bsq (binscii/shrinkit).  In fact, almost all of the files are
in> Binscii format (less than 10% are not).

>Binscii files must be retrieved in ASCII format, not Image/Binary.  If
>you use the latter you will get garbage, regardless of where you get
>them.

Sorry, but that is not true.

For those of us who obtain your .bsc files via Bitftp@pucc, they must
be retrieved as binary and then they must be "fixed". There are least
two of us on the net who must request those files as binary. This is
also true of bsc files from tybalt at caltech.

Ray Waxmonsky (waxmonrw@snybufva)
Dept. of Geography
Buffalo State College