theo@codon1.berkeley.edu (04/04/91)
Greetings ! Here is the story: My friend has some graphic files(GIF ?) on mainframe that he wants to send to me . So he converted them into either pict (for Mac) or TIFF format, uuencoded and sent to me through Email. After decoding them, I downloaded to my Mac through Binary Kermit or Binary Xmodem. However, I can never open them as PICT or TIFF files. They can only be read as text. I don't know much about computer. Can someone tell me where the problem is ? Thanks. A.T..
lev@rsdps.gsfc.nasa.gov (Brian S. Lev) (04/05/91)
In article <1991Apr3.212332.13869@agate.berkeley.edu>, theo@codon1.berkeley.edu writes... >My friend has some graphic files(GIF ?) on mainframe that he wants to send to me >.. So he > converted them into either pict (for Mac) or TIFF format, uuencoded and sent >to me through Email. After decoding them, I downloaded to my Mac through Binary >Kermit or Binary Xmodem. However, I can never open them as PICT or TIFF files. >They can only be read as text. > >I don't know much about computer. Can someone tell me where the problem is ? > >Thanks. >A.T.. Why change them? KEEP them in GIF format, move them around between systems as binary files, and use any one of the many GIF viewers on the Mac -- it's a "system" that works fine here; we've successfully exchanged GIFs between our Macs, Suns, Irises, VAXen, and an IBM 3081... -- Brian Lev PS -- "Giffer" works real nicely on the Mac II; for the non-color Macs, it's a toss-up between "Vision Lab" and "GIFConverter"... all Shareware! +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Brian Lev/STX (301)286-9514 (FTS)888-9514 | | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center DECnet: SDCDCL::LEV (6153::LEV) | | Advanced Data Flow Technology Office TCP/IP: lev@dftnic.gsfc.nasa.gov | | Code 930.4 BITNET: LEV@DFTBIT | | Greenbelt, MD 20771 TELENET: [BLEV/GSFCMAIL] | | X.400 Address: (C:USA,ADMD:TELEMAIL,PRMD:GSFC,O:GSFCMAIL,UN:BLEV) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "The ability of a network to knit together the members of a sprawling | | community has proved to be the most powerful way of fostering scienti- | | fic advancement yet discovered." -- Peter Denning | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | DISCLAIMER: THESE STATEMENTS ARE MY OWN AND *NOT* NASA'S OR STX'S! | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+