Re: PC/MAC compatibility question

At 04:38 AM 4/26/01 -0700, you wrote:

>--- 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

I guess I missed the original posting on this, but if this relates to
uploading images on pinhole day, there should not be a problem with Mac
files. The program that uploads goes by the file's "mime type" (determined
by inspecting the file internally), not by any extension. So there doesn't
need to be an extension. The program only accepts jpg files and gives each
uploaded file a unique name with an extension of .jpg.

I apologize if my comments are unrelated to the this discussion. :)

Gregg

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Received on Thu Apr 26 08:19:06 2001