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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.