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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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[Message index]

		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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