| Re: Anybody used WRITE_PICT? [message #900] |
Sat, 27 March 1993 09:59 |
gurman
Messages: 82
Registered: August 1992
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To follow up on my original post, several non-Ultrix unix users have
told me it all works fine if the file type is changed to PICT, as did
Jong Yi of RSI, but I was still unable to do the trick myself from
either VMS or Ultrix. On a whim (a hunch, really), I tried to create the
file on a SPARC 10, and lo and behold, it worked fine. It seems
endian-ness must have something to do with it, though the SunOS and
Ultrix files are not even the same length (though that, in turn, could
be because of different !d.n_colors, I suppose).
RSI is now aware of the problem and looking into it.
Thanks to everyone who responded, via posts or e-mail.
Joe Gurman
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| Re: Anybody used WRITE_PICT? [message #904 is a reply to message #900] |
Thu, 25 March 1993 06:48  |
woody
Messages: 9
Registered: July 1992
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We ran into a problem with pv-wave and picts. We worked with PVI on
the problem and it seems that somehow alot of the bytes in the pict
file were swapped. PVI wasn't sure when they would have a fix for
it... I was speaking with a PVI guy the other day and he noted that
the problem had been logged in there system and I guess that they
are woking on it.
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| Re: Anybody used WRITE_PICT? [message #905 is a reply to message #904] |
Wed, 24 March 1993 16:23 |
scowen
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Registered: December 1992
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In article <gurman.732993640@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov>, gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
|> Has anybody successfully read with a Mac a (presumably PICT) file
|> produced with WRITE_PICT? I can produce such a file with no trouble on
|> OpenVMS or Ultrix, and ftp the file to the Mac using binary or text, but
|> in no case is MacDraw or TeachText able to make head or tail of such a
|> file.
|> I sure I'm missing something (nothing new).
Nope, I've tried the same thing, and the Mac software I've tried, varying
from MacDraw Pro to Digital Darkroom just sits there and thinks about it
or craps out with a 'not enough memory' error when the file size is only
about 200k. There's definitely something amiss in this routine.
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