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- Short: MS-DOS GL file conversion and display
- Type: gfx/conv
- Uploader: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz
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- READ.ME 04.09.92
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- CONTENTS
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- The following files make up the standard distribution for GL and
- its fellow programs.
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- grasp.info
- grasp/anim.gl Simple animation for anim.gl.info.
- grasp/anim.gl.info Icon for animations.
- grasp/commands.man GRASP commands and fades.
- grasp/commands.man.info
- grasp/gl The player.
- grasp/gl.info
- grasp/gl.man
- grasp/gl.man.info
- grasp/glfont The font extracter.
- grasp/glfont.man
- grasp/glfont.man.info
- grasp/glib The librarian.
- grasp/glib.man
- grasp/glib.man.info
- grasp/libs/iff.library Christian A. Weber's iff.library, v22.3.
- grasp/pic2hl HamLab filter for .PIC/.CLPs.
- grasp/pic2hl.man
- grasp/pic2hl.man.info
- read.me This file.
- read.me.info
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- EXTERNS
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- In addition to the above, the following libraries are used by
- the software, and may be required as noted.
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- pattern.library
- By Angela Schmidt. Required by GLIB, the librarian. I can
- provide version 5.0, though I would prefer you to look
- elsewhere first. An address from the documentation is:
- "Angela@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de".
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- reqtools.library
- By Nico Franτois. Required by GL, the player. Comes in
- two flavors, KS1.3 and KS2.0. I can provide either, and
- have version 38.693 from the reqtools2.0 distribution.
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- xpkmaster.library
- By U. Dominik Mueller and colleagues. Required by both
- the librarian and player for existing files which use
- XPK, but optional (strongly recommended) otherwise. I
- can't distribute this yet, but the Usenet address in
- the documentation is: "umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch".
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- HISTORY
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- 2.0 First public release of 2.x generation.
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- 2.1 GLIB now uses iff.library instead of ilbm.library. The
- latter seemed to have problems reading some files.
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- GL no longer does range checking on the W/H/D parameters
- to the video command. So you can now open HIRES 5-plane
- displays, etc.
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- GLIB now defaults to XPK off, instead of XPK NUKE. This is
- because of problems I am having with XPK. The current 1.0
- version available to me seems to be unusable for the kind
- of compression parameters GLIB requires.
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- GLIB now defaults to Amiga format when creating archives.
- The "-a" option has been removed, and the "-p" option has
- been added to allow the creation of PClone archives.
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- GLFONT has been created from an earlier work by Francis
- Gardner. The idea is to allow the user to create clips of
- text, so they can use CLOAD and CFADE instead of the
- unsupported FLOAD and TEXT commands.
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- GL now handles the CHGCOLOR command.
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- GL now takes an extra parameter for CLOAD and PLOAD. This
- is TYPE, either "FAST" or "CHIP", and specifies what kind
- of RAM you want the data loaded into. Pictures in FAST RAM
- will be displayed much more slowly than those in CHIP.
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- GL has had various modifications to the operation of its
- file requester. A pattern gadget has been added, and a bug
- with selecting files with an empty directory field has
- been fixed.
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