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| GRAV 3.5                                              (C) Michael Knigge |
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I've uploaded the fourth public Release of  my  Graphic-Viewer  GRAV  to
sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu. GRAV runs at the Linux Console  (NOT
X11!!!). It uses a nice (I think so) User Interface to select the images
you want to look at.

GRAV supports many popular formats of graphics: GIF, PCX, LBM, IFF, PPM
PBM, BMP, JPEG, PNG and many many other....

To get GRAV running you must have installed at  least  NCurses  1.8  and
SVGALIB 0.98. Newer releases would be better of course ;-)    But beware 
that there are some bugs in ncurses versions > 1.8.7 and  <  1.9.1a  and 
GRAV will probably not run with these versions of ncurses. And  for  the
new JPEG-Support you need the JPEGLIB >= 5.0 from the IJG! 

There are no really "new" features, but I think GRAV now looks a  little
bit nicer at some points, I fixed many bugs and I've included  the  full
source code of all used libraries - so all you ELF  users  can  now  use 
GRAV, too.


Sometimes GRAV can't handle PING-Images correctly. Please eMail your
Ping-Images to me if you have problems with them. Especially I need some
Truecolor Ping-Images for testing!


So, watch out for the files grav-3.5.tar.gz and grav-3.5.lsm! Please  send
any suggestions, comments and cakes ;-)  to knick@cove.han.de


For the next version of GRAV I plan
       
    o print images
      (I still need some documentation about PostScript!)

    o convert images to other formats
      (is done already except of ping-images - but I'm still testing...)

    o display images in a X-Window if running under X
      (argh! It's my first stept into X11-programming - it's pretty hard...)


And please excuse my poor english. I've left school some years behind me ;-)

Bye
  Michael
