-*- Text -*- This directory contains sources for programs to convert to and from other display file formats. Since most sites will not use all the different file formats, or we may not have written a conversion program for your favorite format, this file contains a few words on customizing the directory and rolling your own. If you do write a conversion program for a file format that is not supported in this distribution, please send it to us, so we can add it to the distribution, and others will not have to duplicate your hard work. Similarly, if you are thinking of writing a conversion program, you might send us a note and see if anyone else has already done one. Some specific notes on building the programs: rletotiff/tifftorle -- These require the "libtiff" distribution from Sam Leffler, available via anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu in /pub/tiff/v2.2.tar.Z (for version 2.2, which these programs have been tested with). I have found one bug in this code that you must fix if you are on a Sun running OS 4.0 or later (and perhaps on other systems, as well). The file libtiff/tif_open.c contains the lines if (!TIFFDefaultDirectory(tif)) goto bad; twice. As TIFFDefaultDirectory does not return a value, you should change this to TIFFDefaultDirectory(tif); rletorast/rasttorle -- You must be on a Sun to compile these, or at least have access to the include file <pixrect/pixrect_hs.h>. They do not understand Sun's run-length encoded format. To read files stored in this form, use /usr/lib/rasfilters/convert.2 as a preprocess step.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.