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- Thanks, John! BTW, I got my tc128 #29 yesterday. I'm enjoying it!
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- Category 11, Topic 6
- Message 4 Fri Oct 25, 1991
- C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] (Forwarded)
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- I am glad you are. I should have had #30 back this week <sigh>, I guess
- it will be next Wednesday.
- One thing super about Autograph is it works very well from the CMD products
- and the file conversion is nice if you want to uncompress the files to port
- into Geos!
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- Topic 7 Wed Jun 24, 1992
- J.SWARTZ9 at 19:37 EDT
- Sub: Using Mac.GIF
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- Getting a Mac.GIF and converting to GEOPaint
- 7 message(s) total.
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- Category 11, Topic 7
- Message 1 Wed Jun 24, 1992
- J.SWARTZ9 at 19:39 EDT
-
- I recently DL a GIF file from the Macintish area and tried to convert to GEOS.
- I first used GEOGIF and it said that it was not a GIF file. I then used
- MACATTACK and it worked but the scan was all just lines of noise like. Is it
- possible to DL from the Mac area and convert to GEOS? I hope I explained
- enough to get an answer. Thanks, Jerry.
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- Category 11, Topic 7
- Message 2 Wed Jun 24, 1992
- PAUL-MB at 19:45 EDT
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- Ahh, the infamous Mac header. Some Macintosh GIFs attach a small header
- to the start of the file just because, well, the Macintosh system feels
- like it. :)
-
- I had this problem and went in with a track and sector editor. But
- it was hit-and-miss. Perhaps someone here can offer a program that will
- do this automatically?
-
- ``` Paul ```
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- Category 11, Topic 7
- Message 3 Fri Jun 26, 1992
- P.CATCHPOLE [Mike] at 21:15 EDT
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- Figures the mac would do something like that.
-
- If the header is a standard length ( I think it is used to import into
- macpaint but i'm not sure), it would be easy to use a pc to hack it off... cbm
- dos makes it a pain to do that though :)
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- Category 11, Topic 7
- Message 4 Sun Jun 28, 1992
- D.MCLAUGHLI8 [Black Fire] at 06:01 EDT
-
- The MACBinary header is always 128 bytes. It would be real easy to write a
- BASIC program to kill off the 128 bytes. In fact, its sooo easy, I can do it
- here!
-
- 10 open 1,8,5,"0:mac.gif"
- 20 open 2,8,6,"0:mac1.gif,p,w"
- 30 for t=1 to 128:get#1,a$:next t
- 40 get#1,a$:u=st:if a$="" then a$=chr$(0)
- 50 print#2,a$;:if (uand64)=0 then 40
- 60 close2:close1:end
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- Don't forget the (;) semicolon in line 50, VERY important! Of course, you can
- also change the filenames and devices as necessary.
-
- Doug
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- Category 11, Topic 7
- Message 5 Sun Jun 28, 1992
- HOWIE-CBM at 10:13 EDT
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- Doug,
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- What an elegant little bit of programming! :)
-
- Howie
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- Category 11, Topic 7
- Message 6 Sun Jun 28, 1992
- PAUL-MB at 11:25 EDT
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- Thanks, Doug!
- ``` Paul ```
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- Category 11, Topic 7
- Message 7 Mon Jun 29, 1992
- C128.JBEE [* Sysop *] at 00:41 EDT
-
- Nice one :) BTW: you use the semicolon because if you didn't you would print
- the character with a carriage return (chr$(13)) following it to the file
- instead of appending a$ to the open file.
- Can't tell you how many times I have neglected that one little detail.
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