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From: aaa@pixar.com (Tony Apodaca)
To: tiff@sgi.sgi.com
Subject: Re:  Problem with tiff files that were ftp'd across a file system
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>  We have a number of tiff files that seem to have been wrecked...
>
> The process that created these munged files, as far as I can tell, is:
>   
>   The NeXT application``grab'' created them.
>   They were ftp'd from the next to the SGI
>   They were ftp'd back to the next
>   We received an error in our image previewer
> 
> Any suggestions as to what went wrong?
>   --Lori

	One guess is that one of the ftp's was done using "ascii" mode
instead of "binary".  I see this mistake happen all the time.



