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Batch converting IFF to GIF

#1383
From: Ian Staples
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:00
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G'day world,

I have a bunch of IFF format graphics files (I think that's
an Amiga format) which I want to convert to something more
standard on PCs.  I would prefer conversion direct to GIF 
format, but JPEG would do at a pinch I guess.

I noted the following "instructions" at one site which
seem to be using a couple of Unix utilities to do, via 
redirection and piping, the sort of job I want to do:

     #!/bin/sh
     ilbmtoppm <$1 |ppmtogif >$1.gif

Questions is, does anyone know of a similar conversion
facility that will run under MSDOS and/or Windows 95?
Preferably free, and available by ftp.

(There's no need to use the "primitives" approach though.
I'd be quite happy with something that could do the job
by specifying wildcard filenames directly to the application
itself. ;-)

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,  Ian S.

ianstDELETE@THISdpi.qld.gov.au
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Date: 2000/09/16
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