Re: Help viewing jpeg, gif

[Alberto Roffe <roffe@delphi.com>]

David Arnett <bo144@torfree.net> writes:
 
>   I use an 8 bit (apple 2c).  I have a GIF viewer but I don't know what 
>program to use to convert the encoded GIF pictures from USENET into a 
>form I can decode.  Also, what program do I use to decode and to view (in 
>DHIRES, preferably) the jpeg USENET pictures.
 
 
To decode the pictures, (and any other file that you find in non-Apple-II
Usenet newsgroups for that matter) you need the 8 bit program called
UUencode/decode 1.01 by Andy Tefft (freeware).
You should find it in the major FTP sites.
 
(Unless those pictures are in a Mac newsgroup, in which case you are doomed,
because they use another encoding format called Binhex, and there is no 8 bit
utility to handle that, but I think those are a minority).
 
As I said, that program would decode any IBM file, including GIFS _and_ JPEGs,
but unfortunately, there is no 8 bit program to view the resulting JPEG file.
There is just IIGIF, to view the GIFs.
 
>   I have trouble downloading Shrinkit programs (at least from Caltech: 
>NASA seems to work OK) so I would prefer a site that offers them in 
>BINSCII format.  However, if SHK files are my only choice, I can probably 
>get them with the help of a friend's MAC.
 
 
I think grind.isca.uiowa.edu has many Binsciied files. In fact, I believe that
all the postings in comp.binaries.apple2 eventually go there.
 
Good luck.
 
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