a379@mindlink.UUCP (Gordon Mulcaster) (09/06/90)
Mac StartUp screens are bit maps, pure and simple.
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What data format are files known as Mac start up screens? I am trying to convert one of the files in your info-mac library from a start up screen format into a format usable on a SPARC and do not seem to be having much luck. I have some programs able to convert TIFF, PICT, and MacPaint files into a format that are usable. Are there some other Unix format conversion programs to handle the other mac graphics formats? -- Larry W. Virden Business: UUCP: osu-cis!chemabs!lwv27 INET: lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg,OH 43068-1614 Proline: lvirden@pro-tcc.cts.com America Online: lvirden CIS: [75046,606]
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (09/07/90)
In article <9009061758.AA11504@lilac.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes: >What data format are files known as Mac start up screens? I am trying >to convert one of the files in your info-mac library from a start up screen >format into a format usable on a SPARC and do not seem to be having much >luck. This depends on your startupscreen. Old B&W mac startupscreens were just 22K of screen data-- not hard to read at all. New mac startupscreens are files that have a PICT resource ID=0 in their resource fork-- unless you have a resource-extractor, you are going to have a problem with these. If you do have a resource-extractor, fix it so it writes 512 bytes of zeros before the resource data, anbd run the result through your PICT converter.