Path: utzoo!utgpu!utorvm!ryerson!acps1072
Date: Monday, 25 Mar 1991 14:56:47 EST
From: ACPS1072@RYERSON <ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA>
Message-ID: <91084.145648ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: IBM .gl animation files
References:  <1251@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>

regarding:  .gl file conversion.

  .gl is a format on the IBM which is formed by a program called GRASP.
GRASP is shareware I believe and it comes with a utility to extract the
COLORIX (or something to that effect) picture files from the .gl file.
Once in COLORIX format you can convert these files to GIF using another
IBM program called VPIC.  Then the GIFs can be converted to whatever using
whatever Amiga/IBM conversion programs you have.
NOTE:  more recent versions of Vpic might be able to convert straight to IFF
       but I have no idea (the last version I used was 3.3, I think)
I'll admit this procedure is mind boggling but this is how I've done it to
get .gl encoded pictures to the MAC.


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