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From: ewing@tramp.Colorado.EDU (EWING DAVID JAMES)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GIF for the Mac. How? (Please Help!)
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Date: 22 Dec 89 18:58:23 GMT
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In article <2544@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> ken@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Ken Rossman) writes:
>  I've found lots of archives that have GIF files, but none of them are in
>  .hqx format. I FTP from my VAX and then download to my Mac. I tried to do
>  this with some of the GIF files, but it wouldn't work unless they were
>  binhexed first.

Make sure that are your file transfers are plain binary (not MacBinary) or
the files willl undoubtedly get corrupted.  Then, change the file type to
'TEXT' or 'GIFf' using DiskTop or ResEdit (or even QUED).

Byte ordering is never a problem with GIF files since it is specified in the
Spec.  (Truely, a GIF IS a GIF on any machine.)

Dave Ewing
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