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From: malczews@nunki.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski)
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Subject: Re: GIF from Mac to II
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Date: 28 Mar 89 04:16:28 GMT
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In article <IY=PCuy00Xc7E3Gkds@andrew.cmu.edu> cs4n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles Humphrey Silvers) writes:
>GIF is GIF is GIF.... the format is computer independent. If the GS won't
>recognize
>the pictures, then either you are transferring them wrong or the pictures have
>been
>corrupted somehow.
>
>Sorry I can't be of any more help than that...
>
>-Chuck Silvers
>cs4n+@anddrew.cmu.edu


If "GIF is GIF is GIF", why are there available so many stripper types of
programs for all the other PCs that apparently strip some type of special
header for the Mac GIF variant so they may be viewed on those PCs?

(I also have similar GIF viewing problems, and I suspect it has to do with
the fact that the other PCs do not have this special header, thereby causing
the Mac to choke on GIFs produced on them.)

  -- Frank Malczewski