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From: dulei@brahms.udel.edu (Du Lei)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: How to Convert GIF from IBM to Mac using Apple File Exchange?
Message-ID: <22512@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 91 22:21:36 GMT
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Hi netters:

I have some questions about GIFs.  I have been working with GIFs for a while 
now, and I can download them on my IBM via FTP very efficiently.  Since the
NCSA Telnet on our school's Mac do not function properly, I can't use FTP
to download GIFs from Unix to a mac.  I thought about the Apple File exchange
program on Mac which will enable me to convert an IBM file into a Mac file, 
using the default translation.  But after I got the file in Mac, I can't
have Giffer, Vision lab or QuickGif to recognize it as a Gif file.
Something must have gone wrong.  I even used MS word to convert it into a 
text file, or use Text translation with AFE, but nothing happens.
Does anyone know how to use Apple File Exchange to do the job, OR if it doesn't,
how would I get a decent FTP program on the Mac?
I have a Hyper FTP which runs with MacTCP, but I dont know where to get MacTCP.
I would appreciate any help from you.
Thanks a lot!!


Lei