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From: add@sciences.sdsu.edu (James D. Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: IBM .MAC FILES/a little help
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.001414.21165@sciences.sdsu.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 00:14:14 GMT
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Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
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gt3930c@prism.gatech.EDU (ZUCCOLA) writes:
> 
>   A friend gave me some .mac files from their pc. I'd like to view them
>   on my mac, but I'm unable to, and I can't figure out why since these
>   are macpaint files?

	The MacPaint files do have a header and MacPaint should be able to
read it.  If the MacPaint files were not originally created on the Mac then
they could have been written to disk using the wrong byte-order (should be
Motorola and Intel was used instead).

	I'd suggest making sure the files were viewable on the PC first.
There is a MacPaint file viewer for the PC called SUPERMAC that'll display
them on a VGA system.  It's available on many BBSs and probably on SIMTEL-20
as well.

	If they display, but not under MacPaint on the Mac, then it's probably
the method you are using to get them to the Mac that is screwing them up.


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