Subject: [netatalk-admins] Corrupt images... hrrrmmm...
From: Neil McAllister (nmcallister@primo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 30 1998 - 14:31:48 EDT
I've just recently (as in, yesterday) noticed some image corruption over a
netatalk server. I have a script that uses the ImageMagick package to
convert files from other formats into JPEGs. So the procedure goes like
this:
1. Copy an image (say, a BMP) to a netatalk shared directory
2. Run the conversion program to make it into a JPEG, on the Unix side
3. Double click on the resulting JPEG. It opens with Picture Viewer --
completely garbled looking.
4. On the other hand -- fetch the file, using Netscape, by specifying an
URL to the file on the Unix server. IT OPENS FINE.
Go figure.
So is this a problem with:
1. The way netatalk transmits data?
2. The way Linux stores data on the drive (and it isn't completely
translated by netatalk)?
3. The way ImageMagick creates JPEGs (and Picture Viewer doesn't like it)?
I don't know. But the bottom line is -- the images aren't corrupted. Not
completely, anyway. They just don't seem to want to be used "live" from
the server via netatalk.
-- Neil McAllister, Systems Administrator Primo Angeli Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA http://www.primo.com mailto:nmcallister@primo.com
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