Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:29160 comp.sys.apple:11564 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!caen.engin.umich.edu!sol.engin.umich.edu!billkatt From: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: GIF from Mac to II Message-ID: <424c6d3c.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> Date: 28 Mar 89 19:35:00 GMT References: <8903251013.aa03744@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <19388@srcsip.UUCP> <3253@nunki.usc.edu> Sender: netnews@caen.engin.umich.edu Reply-To: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (billkatt) Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), University of Michigan Lines: 29 Sender: Followup-To: In article <3253@nunki.usc.edu> malczews@nunki.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) writes: >In article 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 Those strippers take off the 128-byte MacBinary header. Mac GIFs do not have any extra info, but when uploaded to a bulletin board, they are often mistakenly uploaded in MacBinary format. They should be uploaded in binary format. -Steve Bollinger