[comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt] Viewing gif files on an RT

jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) (01/20/90)

I have quite a pile of satelite images (from dynamics explorer I) that
I've been using in my research, and I'd like to view them on my RT with
its megapel display.  I use X11R3 and I know the format of the files
enough to translate them to some standard form.  The gif form seems to
be widely enough accepted that I'm betting it's what I want, so,

Does anyone have code to view gif files under X11R3 on a megapel display
on an RT?  If not, does anyone have useful advice?

					Doug Jones
					jones@herky.cs.uiowa.edu

gobran@ecs.umass.edu (01/20/90)

In article <476@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
> 
> Does anyone have code to view gif files under X11R3 on a megapel display
> on an RT?  If not, does anyone have useful advice?
> 
> 					Doug Jones
> 					jones@herky.cs.uiowa.edu

	You probably will want to check out the 'contrib' and 'oldcontrib'
directories at  expo.lcs.mit.edu  (18.30.0.212)  for some of these programs
for displaying images with X11:
	xloadimage  -  supports GIF and a number of other formats
	pbmplus	    -  converts image formats between over 20 different
			types!
And from  video.mit.edu  (18.80.0.45)  you may want to look at the most
recent version of  xim.
	Let me know via E-mail and I can forward copies of the announcements
for xloadimage and xim.

Dave Gobran		gobran@ecs.umass.edu		(INTERNET)
UMass/Amherst		gobran@umaecs			(BITNET)

dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (01/21/90)

In article <476@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
>Does anyone have code to view gif files under X11R3 on a megapel display
>on an RT?  If not, does anyone have useful advice?

You can get "xgif" via anonymous FTP from dsl.cis.upenn.edu (130.91.6.12)
in the directory pub.  Retrieve xgif.README and xgif.sh.

It builds fine under X11R3.  I use it on my RT with a Megapel.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu