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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.

___

Jim Pekar jp2d@nih.gov Bethesda, Maryland Speaking only for myself.

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		Transferring files to a Mac By: lrn on Thu, 17 November 1994 07:43
		Re: Transferring files to a Mac By: 8015 on Mon, 21 November 1994 09:03
		Re: Transferring files to a Mac By: meadogc on Wed, 30 November 1994 10:57
		Re: Transferring files to a Mac By: djackson on Fri, 18 November 1994 11:31
		Re: Transferring files to a Mac By: nicholas on Fri, 18 November 1994 05:42
		Re: Transferring files to a Mac By: lrn on Fri, 02 December 1994 12:36
		Re: Transferring files to a Mac By: jp2d on Fri, 02 December 1994 12:14
		Re: Transferring files to a Mac By: djackson on Thu, 01 December 1994 09:45

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