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Ian Staples <ianst@refer.to.sig.au.invalid> wrote in
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> G'day world,

Cane toads arent allowed to posture like that. Golf clubs will be used.

> 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?

Wota dinosaur.

> Preferably free, and available by ftp.

What's wrong with a decent graphics package that will allow
bulk conversions with a decent modern user interface ?

Irfan View and ACDSee will do that from memory.

> (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. ;-)

Wota dinosaur. Any decent system allows you to highlight the
ones you want to convert and just convert the highlighted files.

> Thanks for your time.

The bill is in the mail.