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AMIGBN/CHOP

    11-Mar-86 10:45:59
Sb: #11192-AMIGBN/CHOP
Fm: Wayne Davison 76703,615
To: MICHAEL GEIER 73307,1576
Mike, Your problem with Aterm5 chopping the picture file too short can be kludged after-the-fact as follows: Type the command: copy * to nulls and enter a few nulls from the keyboard (Ctrl-@) followed by one ctrl-\ to end the file. You now have a file with nothing but nulls in it, and can use the JOIN command to join your picture to the nulls, resulting in a proper length file. For example: join this.pic nulls as newthis.pic The reason this works is that Aterm5 only chops nulls from a file (the ctrl-Z chopping hasn't been fixed yet(?)), so you can be assured that adding nulls is the right thing to do. Further, you don't need to worry about adding too many nulls, because IFF programs don't care if the IFF files are too long. They just ignore the extra characters. –Wayne