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- README for XIcon version 1.0 04 Jan 1993
-
- XIcon is a conversion program for translating icons between various
- formats. It was written by Norman Walsh <norm@ora.com> using EMX/GCC.
-
- XIcon reads:
-
- Mac icon resources (raw resource forks)
- Windows icon files
- X11 XBM files
- OS/2 v1.2 Icon files
- OS/2 v2.0 Icon files
-
- XIcon writes:
-
- OS/2 v1.2 Icon files
- OS/2 v2.0 Icon files
- Windows Icon files (well, sortof--it's mostly untested)
- X11 XPM files
-
- My appologies for the poor documentation and hideous command line options
- of this program. For a brief summary of the available options, run XIcon
- without any parameters. Here is a brief summary:
-
- xicon <options> input output
-
- Will convert the icons in "input" into OS/2 1.2 icons in "output".
-
- GENERAL OPTIONS
- -2 Write an OS/2 2.0 icon file instead
- -w Write a Windows icon file instead (largely untested)
- -x Write an XPM3 icon file instead
-
- OPTIONS FOR MAC RESOURCES
- -p Use Mac palette rather than OS/2 palette.
- -I Don't include ICN# resources (32x32x1 images)
- -# Don't include ics# resources (16x16x1 images)
- -l Don't include icl4 resources (32x32x4 images)
- -s Don't include ics4 resources (16x16x4 images)
-
- OPTIONS FOR XPM FILES
- -a Write all the icons. Since XPM files can only contain a single icon,
- xicon normally translates only the first icon found. If -a is
- specified, the output filename is used as a pattern and "#.xpm" is
- appended to it. If the output file is "test", xicon will create
- "test1.xpm", "test2.xpm", etc...
-
- -R Specifies an alternate colors database file. XPM files contain color
- names. In order to determine what names to use, xicon reads the
- "rgb.txt" file in /usr/local/lib/X11. If your rgb.txt file is
- somewhere else... Note: if you don't use X11, you probably don't have
- an rgb.txt file, so one is supplied in this distribution. Of course,
- if you don't have X11, you probably don't have much use for XPM files
- either...
-
- OPTIONS FOR XBM FILES
- -f Set foreground color to 'C'.
- -b Set background color to 'C'
-
- C=0..15 or 't' for transparent, or 'r' for reverse of background.
-
- -r Don't reverse the bit order of the bytes in the file.
- -m Set mask file. The mask file is ANDed with the background and the
- image.
-
- OPTIONS FOR MAC FILES ONLY
- -p Use Mac palette rather than OS/2 palette.
- -I Don't include ICN# resources (32x32x1 images)
- -# Don't include ics# resources (16x16x1 images)
- -l Don't include icl4 resources (32x32x4 images)
- -s Don't include ics4 resources (16x16x4 images)
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- XIcon is Copyright (C) 1993, 94 by Norman Walsh
-
- XIcon is distributed under the GNU Copyleft. You are free to modify this
- code, but you cant take credit for the parts I wrote. See the file
- "COPYING" for more information.
-
- NO WARRANTY
-
- THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
- APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT
- HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
- OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
- THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM
- IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF
- ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
-
- COMMENTS?
-
- Whatever you think of this program, drop me a note and tell me. Some
- future version of this program will no doubt be a PM application with
- all kinds of bells and whistles. But this one ain't it.
-
-