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From: jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: GIF to 24bit IFF
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Date: 29 Oct 90 13:44:26 GMT
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bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (System Administrator) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from axjjb@acad2.anc.alaska.edu
>
>> Does anyone have a gif to 24bit iff convertor.  Is there one out.  I have TAD
>> (So I should just purchase the GIF loader right?)..anyways...I need a GIF to
>> 24bit IFF soon (for a 24bit color display I am creating using the HAM-E)

>I'm not sure what type of 24 bit files that HAMLAB creates but HAMLAB is
>shareware (and a great program I might add) and it will allow you to pipe your
>GIF file to a 24bit file.  You can probably ask Ed Hanaway(?) more about that
			      closer than usual :-) ^^^X^^^
>as I believe he is the author.

HAMLAB does convert GIF to a temporary 24-bit file as an intermediate step to
HAM conversion.  Alas, the 24-bit file format is not IFF, but rather a
very simple format (a few bytes of header followed by a raw 24-bit RGB dump).
You can run the HAMLAB GIF convertor by itself to create this file
(gif2hl <file.gif > file.24bit) but it will take a little (probably very little)
work to convert it the results to 24-bit IFF format.

Ed Hanway
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