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.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  251     724  34.7% -lh5- b550 Sep  9  1992 grasp.info
[generic]                  381    8248   4.6% -lh5- e634 Sep  9  1992 grasp/anim.gl
[generic]                  240    1029  23.3% -lh5- 5cd8 Sep  9  1992 grasp/anim.gl.info
[generic]                 4492   13181  34.1% -lh5- 629b Sep  9  1992 grasp/commands.man
[generic]                  453    1755  25.8% -lh5- 6c9c Sep  9  1992 grasp/commands.man.info
[generic]                14965   28080  53.3% -lh5- a923 Sep  9  1992 grasp/gl
[generic]                  484    1519  31.9% -lh5- f60d Sep  9  1992 grasp/gl.info
[generic]                 2384    5336  44.7% -lh5- afb9 Sep  9  1992 grasp/gl.man
[generic]                  450    1755  25.6% -lh5- dfa3 Sep  9  1992 grasp/gl.man.info
[generic]                 5965    9904  60.2% -lh5- 4e4e Sep  9  1992 grasp/glfont
[generic]                 1127    2301  49.0% -lh5- fcf4 Sep  9  1992 grasp/glfont.man
[generic]                  453    1755  25.8% -lh5- 7cd0 Sep  9  1992 grasp/glfont.man.info
[generic]                12755   23104  55.2% -lh5- c457 Sep  9  1992 grasp/glib
[generic]                 3053    7922  38.5% -lh5- 4666 Sep  9  1992 grasp/glib.man
[generic]                  456    1755  26.0% -lh5- e9d7 Sep  9  1992 grasp/glib.man.info
[generic]                 2254    3164  71.2% -lh5- 6ecb Sep  9  1992 grasp/libs/iff.library
[generic]                 3784   15532  24.4% -lh5- 6c41 Sep  9  1992 grasp/pic2hl
[generic]                 1810    3878  46.7% -lh5- f7ed Sep  9  1992 grasp/pic2hl.man
[generic]                  447    1755  25.5% -lh5- 4d09 Sep  9  1992 grasp/pic2hl.man.info
[generic]                 1478    3526  41.9% -lh5- 1431 Sep  9  1992 read.me
[generic]                  452    1755  25.8% -lh5- 3bb4 Sep  9  1992 read.me.info
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 Total        21 files   58134  137978  42.1%            Dec 13  1992