Short:        MS-DOS GL file conversion and display
Uploader:     jbickers templar actrix gen nz
Type:         gfx/conv
Architecture: m68k-amigaos





    READ.ME                                                   04.09.92



    CONTENTS

    The following files make up the standard distribution for GL and
    its fellow programs.

    grasp.info
    grasp/anim.gl           Simple animation for anim.gl.info.
    grasp/anim.gl.info      Icon for animations.
    grasp/commands.man      GRASP commands and fades.
    grasp/commands.man.info
    grasp/gl                The player.
    grasp/gl.info
    grasp/gl.man
    grasp/gl.man.info
    grasp/glfont            The font extracter.
    grasp/glfont.man
    grasp/glfont.man.info
    grasp/glib              The librarian.
    grasp/glib.man
    grasp/glib.man.info
    grasp/libs/iff.library  Christian A. Weber's iff.library, v22.3.
    grasp/pic2hl            HamLab filter for .PIC/.CLPs.
    grasp/pic2hl.man
    grasp/pic2hl.man.info
    read.me                 This file.
    read.me.info


    EXTERNS

    In addition to the above, the following libraries are used by
    the software, and may be required as noted.

    pattern.library
            By Angela Schmidt. Required by GLIB, the librarian. I can
            provide version 5.0, though I would prefer you to look
            elsewhere first. An address from the documentation is:
            "Angela@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de".

    reqtools.library
            By Nico François. Required by GL, the player. Comes in
            two flavors, KS1.3 and KS2.0. I can provide either, and
            have version 38.693 from the reqtools2.0 distribution.

    xpkmaster.library
            By U. Dominik Mueller and colleagues. Required by both
            the librarian and player for existing files which use
            XPK, but optional (strongly recommended) otherwise. I
            can't distribute this yet, but the Usenet address in
            the documentation is: "umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch".


    HISTORY

    2.0     First public release of 2.x generation.

    2.1     GLIB now uses iff.library instead of ilbm.library. The
            latter seemed to have problems reading some files.

            GL no longer does range checking on the W/H/D parameters
            to the video command. So you can now open HIRES 5-plane
            displays, etc.

            GLIB now defaults to XPK off, instead of XPK NUKE. This is
            because of problems I am having with XPK. The current 1.0
            version available to me seems to be unusable for the kind
            of compression parameters GLIB requires.

            GLIB now defaults to Amiga format when creating archives.
            The "-a" option has been removed, and the "-p" option has
            been added to allow the creation of PClone archives.

            GLFONT has been created from an earlier work by Francis
            Gardner. The idea is to allow the user to create clips of
            text, so they can use CLOAD and CFADE instead of the
            unsupported FLOAD and TEXT commands.

            GL now handles the CHGCOLOR command.

            GL now takes an extra parameter for CLOAD and PLOAD. This
            is TYPE, either "FAST" or "CHIP", and specifies what kind
            of RAM you want the data loaded into. Pictures in FAST RAM
            will be displayed much more slowly than those in CHIP.

            GL has had various modifications to the operation of its
            file requester. A pattern gadget has been added, and a bug
            with selecting files with an empty directory field has
            been fixed.