kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) (06/04/90)
Hello, I am wondering some Apple wizards would be willing to help me with a little problem I have been having. I recently uploaded Macdown to comp.binaries.apple2 for some people in alt.sex.pictures that wanted to view MacPaint pictures on the Apple //. I have a large library of such pictures, and I figured that uploading them to the net would be no different than uploading GIF pictures. It seems this isn't the case. All the MacPaint pictures I have on my disks are of type TXT, which I think is rather standard. The first thing I tried was to upload them with Kermit, telling both my computer that it was file type text and the remote computer the same. Well, after trying to download it in the same manner, it worked and I got a file on my disk, but there was no picture, just a bunch of ugly lines. Then I tried uploading it as text from my end, and telling the remote host it was binary. After I had it on the remote machine, I tried downloading it with the remote set as binary, and then with mine as binary, and then again with mine as text. When I tried the to view the binary one (BIN), it have me a ProDOS error. When I tried to view the text one, it once again gave me the scribbled lines. I know the best way to do all this would be to do up the files with ShrinkIt and BinSCII, but MacPaints can also be viewed on machines like Macintosh and IBM, so I would want to try and use something that just about everyone can unpack it with (uuencode) but I can't use that if the file isn't correct in the first place. Does anyone here know what I should do if I want the file to get transferred to and from the remote host correctly? :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: -Phil Rzewski Internet: kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu :: :: "A man in love is a man possessed." Bitnet: USERF3DK@RPITSMTS.BITNET :: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (06/04/90)
kutcha@clotho.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes: >It seems this isn't the case. All the MacPaint pictures I have on >my disks are of type TXT, which I think is rather standard. The first >thing I tried was to upload them with Kermit, telling both my computer >that it was file type text and the remote computer the same. Well, >after trying to download it in the same manner, it worked and I got >a file on my disk, but there was no picture, just a bunch of ugly lines. The TXT filetype is misleading. Apple File Exchange is really stupid sometimes and marks a file as TXT when it should be BIN. You will have to upload the files with binary on both ends or the data will get corrupted somewhere along the way. You may have to change the Prodos filetype to get this to work. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu