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From: new@udel.edu (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GIF to IFF
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Date: 15 Nov 89 17:19:01 GMT
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In article <5422@wpi.wpi.edu> jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) writes:
>There is a program, called gif2iff, that will do this for you.  It comes
>with two programs, giftotmp, and tmptoiff.  It works ok, but it chokes on
>GIFS that are bigger than the Amiga screen.

However, I looked at this one.  It seems the TMPtoIFF is what chokes.
The GIFtoTMP seems to work fine.  The temp-file format is just a
color map and a fully decompressed (1 byte per pixel) non-interleaved
easy-to-understand big file.  I think it would probably be easier
to make this one work than to rewrite from scratch.  I used it
because the GIFs I was viewing were 16-level grayscale, so the
temp file didn't need any color conversions.  Please let me know if
anybody fixes this to work on larger forms. -- Darren