crayops@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (05/07/88)
Hi, I've been really confused with the gif postings in rec.arts.startrek. It seems there are gifs for every kind of computer. How do I download those things for a mac? I've never heard of uuencode, and when it is decoded, how is it made into a maclike format? anyone download the gifs ok from before? please send help info and uudecode if necessary. Thanks! -mark
crayops@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (05/07/88)
oh, ps please send direct mail as files are discarded quickly. it is doubtful I would ever see responses to this file. -mark
dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (05/10/88)
in:comp.sys.mac / crayops@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Hi, I've been really confused with the gif postings in rec.arts.startrek. >It seems there are gifs for every kind of computer. How do I download >those things for a mac? I've never heard of uuencode, and when it is >decoded, how is it made into a maclike format? anyone download the gifs >ok from before? please send help info and uudecode if necessary. Thanks! Well the gif files themselves are SUPPOSED to be MACHINE independent. However, we have been finding that there is some sort of inconsistency going on here! I was able to uudecode the gif files on my unix station (uuen/decode are unix tools) and ftp them to my Mac II. They would not display properly and the gif displayer programs I have will beep and/or display an "error" message. Now, the funny thing is that someone here wrote a program to display the gif images under X Windows and they display just fine there. We are wondering if it is a byte alignment problem of some sort. As you can convert macintosh pict files to gif files you can convert the images to be displayed by a GIF displayer for the X Window System. Right now though the images come out extremely distorted. So much for a display standard! If anyone has an answer, I'd appreciate hearing about it. David Williams Hp Software Development Technology Lab