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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Gif -> IFF
Keywords: IBM GIF to AMIGA IFF
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.134737.5471@ericsson.se>
Date: 15 Dec 90 13:47:37 GMT
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In article <8060@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> auyeung@iris.ucdavis.edu (Tak [UlTech] AuYeung) writes:
-In article <10045@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble) writes:
->I don't know which gif->iff converter you're talking about, but there is
->  one that is very good and not at all kludgy.  It's called hamsharp, is 
->  available at better ftp sites everywhere, and produces spectacular results.
-
-Yeah, hamsharp is pretty good, but it also eats up quite a lot of
-memory.  So if you have a stock Amiga and huge images files, hamsharp
-may not be able to convert images.  An alternative is to get the
-"fuzzybitmap" package and do the convertion on a high power Unix
-machine (like a Sun4) and then download the converted files.  I find
-the FBM package extremely useful and has all the utilities for useful
-image processing.
-
---Tak

I am interested in in converting GIF's to IFF's, too. I have an Amiga with
5MB memory, so hamsharp should be cool. I also have access to Sun4's, so
the other solution is possible as well. GIF files are no problem, either.

I don't have access to ftp, however, and my compress/archiver programs
are lost in a crash (the diskette holding these and some other programs
as a backup while reformatting my harddisk went completely nuts).

So, can someone please email me:

HamSharp and/or the FBM package and/or any other good package
Lharc/Warp/Zoo... (what's normally used). I only have uuencode/uudecode now

I have access to SparcStations for the moment, so I can take this to my
Amiga using 720K floppies.


Thanks in advance
Tommy Petersson
etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se