MCIS Technical Support and Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) are pleased to announce a fix to a problem some clients have experienced with images intended for display on their World Wide Web (WWW) pages. Images moved into an individual's account using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) software in *ASCII text* mode (rather than in *binary* mode) usually become corrupted and fail to display properly through World Wide Web browsers. The old version of the WWW server software running on Miami's primary web server contained special code designed to compensate for the particular type of corruption caused by ASCII rather than binary FTP transfers. However, that code caused other problems, and the author of the web server software removed it from the latest version of the WWW server. Miami installed the latest version of the web server software a few weeks ago, and as a result, these broken images which had previously displayed, stopped displaying. MCIS Technical Support (in the person of Kent Covert) has developed a tool to repair these corrupted images so that they display properly as originally intended. The command FIXIMAGES, invoked at the $ command prompt on MiaVX1, causes the tool to search all subdirectories within the [.WWW] subdirectory in the individual's MiaVX1 account, for graphics files bearing the filename suffixes of .GIF, .JPEG and .JPG. The tool then attempts to repair the file, and saves both the repaired and the original versions of the files. After using FIXIMAGES, it is recommended that the images be tested through a web browser. If they are repaired, the PURGE command, invoked at the $ command prompt, will remove the earlier, corrupted version(s) of the graphics file(s). If they still do not display, it is recommended that the MCIS Help Desk be contacted by electronic mail (at [log in to unmask]) or telephone (at 529-7900). John -- Miami University John B Harlan Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) Client Services 137 Hoyt Hall Oxford, Ohio 45056-1618 (513) 529-5330 voice (513) 529-5058 fax [log in to unmask] http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~harlanjb/