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From: dave@ratmandu.sgi.com (dave "who can do? ratmandu!" ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: QuickPaint
Keywords: toalias, converts from SGI to ALIAS image format
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Date: 29 May 90 22:05:05 GMT
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In article <9005281929.AA03813@clciris.chem.umr.edu> bobf@CLCIRIS.CHEM.UMR.EDU ("Robert B. Funchess") writes:
>Have I managed to overlook a program that will turn SGI image format files
>into QuickPaint files, or does such a beast not exist?

so you first want to see if /usr/people/4Dgifts is loaded on yer system(s).
if not, you can either load the eoe2.sw.moregltools subsystem off yer EOE2 
tape, or load dev.sw.giftssrc off yer DEV tape.  (look in the release notes
for instructions of how to unload the dev.sw.giftssrc or "4Dgifts" subsystem)
if eoe2.sw.moregltools is alreay loaded use the file /usr/sbin/toalias to
convert yer SGI image file into an alias file.  OR if /usr/people/4Dgifts
is loaded (it's configured as a sample login account--like /usr/people/guest--
only its got alot of stuff included) become 4Dgifts user (su - 4Dgifts), or
if there is not entry in the /etc/passwd, become guest user, and go to
/usr/people/4Dgifts/iristools, then
% cd libgutil
% make
% cd ../libimage
% make
% cd ../imgtools
% make toalias
and at this point, you'll have the executable that will convert an SGI image
file into an ALIAS (i.e. quickpaint/quickmodel) image file format.
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