SGI--->MAC image transfer

[James Petts]

In article <1993Sep18.124014.1 at molbiol.ox.ac.uk>,
nickerson at molbiol.ox.ac.uk (Darren Nickerson) wrote:

> 	Our lab has recently acquired an SGI for modelling purposes, and I 
> have been struggling with the following question.  Is there a way to take a 
> "screen-shot" on the Silicon Graphics which I can open on a MAC, preferably 
> with minimal loss of resolution?  Would this screenshot be GIF, PICT, TIFF or 
> PS?  Anyone doing this routinely?

Yes. I use the snapshot command to generate an RGB file which can be
converted to a PICT file with the topict command. It's trivial when you
know how. See tha man pages and Irix Utilities manual for more info. You
can also generate TIFF and PS/EPSF files.

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