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- WHAT'S NEW IN GIFKIT RELEASE 1.1
-
- -- Help options have been added to all programs. Try -?. The same usage
- message is printed whenever a bad option is found.
-
- -- INTELLIGENT WILDCARD EXPANSION! (Well, almost). You can give any
- of the programs a fancy filespec now. For example, *O*A*I*A.GIF will match
- MONALISA.GIF and not FOO.GIF. The matching isn't case sensitive, either. Still
- has an occasional problem with pathological filenames containing lots of
- repeated letters. *LL* will match DOLLAR.GIF and not DOLAR.GIF, as expected,
- but L*L.GIF won't match LLLOOLLL.GIF. This is an unfortunate result of the
- way the matcher handles multiple letters and can't be corrected easily.
- It doesn't seem worth implementing a pattern-matching-DFA generator nearly
- as big as the main program just to fix this little problem...
-
- -- GIFLS: The awkward >= and <= options for searches have been
- replaced by > and <, respectively.
-
- -- GIFCOLOR: The "Press any key..." prompt is automatically suppressed
- when the standard output is redirected. Redirection is not supported with any
- display (-d) option, however. After all, you can't redirect a graphics screen.
-
- -- Error display has been generally cleaned up in all programs.
-
- -- GIFSTRIP: The weird error haunting the -t option has been eliminted.
- The failure of the fopen() call was caused by allocating ALL free memory as a
- buffer before trying to open the file.
-
- -- GIFSTRIP: Free-space checker added. Won't even attempt to process
- a file if there isn't enough free space for the temporary file.
-
- -- GIFSTRIP: Handles paths in targets correctly now, putting temporary
- file in same disk and directory as original file unless told otherwise with
- -t option.
-
- -- GIFSTRIP: Prints message "Recopying..." when recopying a file.
- Just for your info.
-
- -- GIFCOLOR: Added control-break handler for display (-d) option.
- If you hit control-break while in a graphics screen, video mode and palette
- are reset before program exits. Formerly, you were stuck with a very odd
- palette, since the program turns off automatic palette loading by the BIOS.
-
- -- Modified GIFLS to serve as front end for GIFSTRIP and GIFCOLOR.
- GIFLS has the searches based on image height, width, and colors; the other
- two have their own special abilities. The -f option makes GIFLS print out
- (on stdout) a list of filenames which match any specified searches; the
- rest of its output is sent to NUL:. GIFSTRIP and GIFCOLOR detect when
- their stdin has been redirected (for example, a pipe from GIFLS) and
- automatically read a list of targets from stdin. Command line options are
- used, but any targets on the command line are discarded. Furthermore, GIFSTRIP
- and GIFCOLOR can also accept files of targets (targets separated by newlines)
- via this facility.