| Transferring files to a Mac [message #3102] |
Thu, 17 November 1994 07:43  |
lrn
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Hi y'all,
I have tried to use the PICT display driver in PV-WAVE (SGI) to make
plots to transfer to a Macintosh computer. When I transfer the pict
file to tha Mac, using FTP, the Mac thinks it's a text file. (This is
true of all files I have tried to transfer, TIFF etc). Can anyone tell
me how to tell the Mac that a file is PICT (TIFF, . . .)? Macs are so
"user-friendly", thy are impossible to use!!!
Thanks,
Larry
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| Re: Transferring files to a Mac [message #3178 is a reply to message #3102] |
Mon, 21 November 1994 09:03  |
8015
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In article <1994Nov17.154355.13275@wuphys.wustl.edu>,
Larry Roger Nittler <lrn@howdy.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Hi y'all,
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> I have tried to use the PICT display driver in PV-WAVE (SGI) to make
> plots to transfer to a Macintosh computer. When I transfer the pict
> file to tha Mac, using FTP, the Mac thinks it's a text file. (This is
> true of all files I have tried to transfer, TIFF etc). Can anyone tell
> me how to tell the Mac that a file is PICT (TIFF, . . .)? Macs are so
> "user-friendly", thy are impossible to use!!!
>
Well that last statement kinda screams "I love my PC", doesn't it?
Actually, I think your problem is with your FTP software not your Mac,
but then again I'm not at your Mac. Anyway, you need to put your ftp
software into binary mode using the binary or image command at the ftp
prompt. If you're using Fetch from the Mac, select the "Binary" button
at the bottom of the Fetch window. If you're not using Fetch, I suggest
you get a copy from one of the Mac archives. Now, get the file from the
Unix system. Your Mac application should now be able to import the file
as a PICT or whatever format you have output from the SGI.
Mike Schienle Hughes Santa Barbara Research Center
8015@sbsun0010.sbrc.hac.com 75 Coromar Drive, M/S B28/87
Voice: (805)562-7466 Fax: (805)562-7881 Goleta, CA 93117
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| Re: Transferring files to a Mac [message #3220 is a reply to message #3102] |
Fri, 02 December 1994 12:36 |
lrn
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In article ru4@hacgate2.hac.com, 8015@sbsun0010.sbrc.hac.com (Mike Schienle) writes:
>> me how to tell the Mac that a file is PICT (TIFF, . . .)? Macs are so
>> "user-friendly", thy are impossible to use!!!
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> Well that last statement kinda screams "I love my PC", doesn't it?
Well, actually no. It screams " I hate Macs", but makes no comments
whatsoever about any other type of computer. I do not have to use PCs,
so I could not care less about them. (I do like the SGI, though)
Thanks again to everyone who responded.
Larry
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| Re: Transferring files to a Mac [message #3225 is a reply to message #3102] |
Fri, 02 December 1994 12:14 |
jp2d
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Registered: December 1994
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In article <1994Nov17.154355.13275@wuphys.wustl.edu>,
lrn@howdy.wustl.edu (Larry Roger Nittler) wrote, in part:
> I have tried to use the PICT display driver in PV-WAVE (SGI) to make
> plots to transfer to a Macintosh computer. When I transfer the pict
> file to tha Mac, using FTP, the Mac thinks it's a text file. (This is
> true of all files I have tried to transfer, TIFF etc). Can anyone tell
> me how to tell the Mac that a file is PICT (TIFF, . . .)?
Here is one solution, which has the virtue of making life easy once you
have set things up properly. It assumes that you are using the _fetch_
application on your mac to ftp over the files:
Step 1.
Run the application on the mac which you wish to use to view your
imported files. For example, I use NIH Image. Save a document from
this application to your hard disk.
Step 2.
Start fetch. Under the "customize" menu, select the "suffix mapping"
menu item. Click on the "new" button. This brings up a dialog box.
Type ".tiff" into the suffix window, leave the "binary" radio button
clicked, and click on the "choose example" button. Now use the dialog
box to select the sample document you saved in step one.
Step 3.
Whenever you create a tiff file on your unix box, name it with a ".tiff"
extension.
And, viola. Whenever you bring such a file over to your mac using fetch,
it will double-click open into the application you used in Step 1 above.
Hope this helps.
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Jim Pekar jp2d@nih.gov Bethesda, Maryland Speaking only for myself.
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| Re: Transferring files to a Mac [message #3232 is a reply to message #3102] |
Thu, 01 December 1994 09:45 |
djackson
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In article <1994Nov30.185755.11079@eplrx7.es.duPont.com>
meadogc@poepsn01.po.dupont.com@gatekeeper.es.dupont.com (Gregory C.
Meador) writes:
> You must of course use the binary file trasnfer. You can still use the file with
> your MAC. Just load the application first and then open the PICT or TIFF file.
> If you don't want to do that then you can use ResEdit on the MAC to change the
> resource fork.
Much simpler than ResEdit hacking is to use a type-and-creator-changer
utility such as the freeware FinderInfo, with a nice drag-and-drop
usage, and you can tell it to be "just like this other file here".
Find it in one of the sumex-aim archives/mirrors in Utilities
directory.
Cheers,
-Dick
Dick Jackson djackson@ibd.nrc.ca Institute for Biodiagnostics
Opinions are mine alone. National Research Council Canada, Winnipeg
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| Re: Transferring files to a Mac [message #3237 is a reply to message #3178] |
Wed, 30 November 1994 10:57 |
meadogc
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Registered: November 1994
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In article ru4@hacgate2.hac.com, 8015@sbsun0010.sbrc.hac.com (Mike Schienle) writes:
> In article <1994Nov17.154355.13275@wuphys.wustl.edu>,
> Larry Roger Nittler <lrn@howdy.wustl.edu> wrote:
>> Hi y'all,
>>
>> I have tried to use the PICT display driver in PV-WAVE (SGI) to make
>> plots to transfer to a Macintosh computer. When I transfer the pict
>> file to tha Mac, using FTP, the Mac thinks it's a text file. (This is
>> true of all files I have tried to transfer, TIFF etc). Can anyone tell
>> me how to tell the Mac that a file is PICT (TIFF, . . .)? Macs are so
>> "user-friendly", thy are impossible to use!!!
>>
>
> Well that last statement kinda screams "I love my PC", doesn't it?
> Actually, I think your problem is with your FTP software not your Mac,
> but then again I'm not at your Mac. Anyway, you need to put your ftp
> software into binary mode using the binary or image command at the ftp
> prompt. If you're using Fetch from the Mac, select the "Binary" button
> at the bottom of the Fetch window. If you're not using Fetch, I suggest
> you get a copy from one of the Mac archives. Now, get the file from the
> Unix system. Your Mac application should now be able to import the file
> as a PICT or whatever format you have output from the SGI.
>
> Mike Schienle Hughes Santa Barbara Research Center
> 8015@sbsun0010.sbrc.hac.com 75 Coromar Drive, M/S B28/87
> Voice: (805)562-7466 Fax: (805)562-7881 Goleta, CA 93117
You must of course use the binary file trasnfer. You can still use the file with
your MAC. Just load the application first and then open the PICT or TIFF file.
If you don't want to do that then you can use ResEdit on the MAC to change the
resource fork.
Double-Click ResEdit, then File Open and select your file,
then select File Get Info for
under TYPE for a tiff file use TIFF in uppercase, for a PICT use PICT in uppercase
under creator use 8BIM for Adobe Photoshop or DAD2 for Canvas then click OK.
If you don't have either of these programs then use ResEdit to find out what the
creator "code" is for one of the files from a program that you do have and plug
that in.
Hope this helps,
Happy Computing,
Greg C. Meador
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