Short: MS-DOS GL file conversion and display Uploader: jbickers templar actrix gen nz Type: gfx/conv Architecture: m68k-amigaos READ.ME 04.09.92 CONTENTS The following files make up the standard distribution for GL and its fellow programs. 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 EXTERNS In addition to the above, the following libraries are used by the software, and may be required as noted. 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". reqtools.library By Nico François. 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. 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". HISTORY 2.0 First public release of 2.x generation. 2.1 GLIB now uses iff.library instead of ilbm.library. The latter seemed to have problems reading some files. 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. 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. 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. 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. GL now handles the CHGCOLOR command. 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. 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.