Re: PC/MAC compatibility question

From: George L Smyth <glsmyth_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Thu 26 Apr 2001 - 04:38:41 PDT

--- John GRAY <jgray@bretton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Tina,
>
> this may seem a bit late in the day but problems between Macs and PCs reading
> tiffs and jpegs stems from the fact that Macs don't require a file extension
> in th way PCs do. If you include the appropriate extension after each
> filename- Pc dos filenames are 8 alphanumeric characters followed by the
> three character file extension (.tif .jpg ,etc.) then both Macs and PCs won't
> have a problem. As for the burning of Cds Pam and Colin seem to have answered
> that question.

I don't believe that you would want to use a TIF format, as browsers are
looking for JPGs and GIFs.

Cheers -

george

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