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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .gif files
Message-ID: <16473@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 20 Jun 91 21:27:14 GMT
References: <30675.apple.net@pro-party> <1991Jun20.123203.286@mcs.anl.gov> <1991Jun20.180106.4531@unixg.ubc.ca>
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In article <1991Jun20.180106.4531@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>It seems that Apple GIFs have an additional header.

No, the GIF file format is supposed to be the same across systems.
What you probably encountered was a stupid "MacBinary" header that
people often add when uploading Macintosh files to other systems,
on the assumption that it is important to restore the file attributes
when the file is downloaded to another Macintosh.  They really ought
not to do this when uploading GIF files.