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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts
- From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
- Subject: Re: How can I view .GIF files?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.205817.27331@uwasa.fi>
- Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
- References: <11256@disc.dla.mil>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:58:17 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <11256@disc.dla.mil> i000404@disc.dla.mil (james cook) writes:
- >I would like to download some .gif files from sites like garbo.
- >Do you need any special software or utilities to view .gif files?
-
- Yes you do. You need a GIF viewer. The most popular (most
- downloaded) is
-
- 136867 Sep 10 12:00 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/gifutil/cshw850a.zip
-
- >Do I have to uncompress or unzip the .gif files when I download them
- >or ftp them to my pc?
-
- No, but you'll have to carefully remember to transfer them in the
- binary mode.
-
- "If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
- welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
- (long, circa 29Kb). North American users are referred to the Garbo
- mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu. Australian users are referred to the
- archie.au mirror. For the Asian users there is the NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
- mirror. The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the
- files. If you do not receive my reply within five days, please ask
- your own site's system manager to construct a returnable mail path
- for you".
-
- All the best, Timo
-
- ..................................................................
- Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
- Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
- Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
- Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun ; SF-65101, Finland
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