Program: Wasp 1.21
Copyright Steven Reiz 1991, see the COPYING file for more info.
Purpose: Converts pictures from GIF and IFF format to IFF format.
Usage:   wasp [options] [operations] [parameters] infile [outfile]

Input formats supported:
- GIF (87a)
- IFF hires, lores, HAM, EHB, sliced hires, lores, and HAM, dynamic hires,
  lores and HAM, 24-bits IFF.
- SRGR, a private format, basically uncompressed 12-bits RGB.
- Sun rasterfile, monochrome only
- PPM, P6 (binary 24-bits RGB) only.

Output formats supported:
- IFF hires, lores, HAM, EHB, sliced hires, lores, and HAM, dynamic hires,
  lores and HAM, 24-bits IFF.
- SRGR

Main features:
- SPEED! This program has been developed on an unaccelerated A500, on which
  all of the other GIF <-> IFF conversion programs ran way too slow.
  Wasp is three times faster than supercon, seven times faster than
  gifmachine, and even faster than TAD, a commercial program!
- Good output quality, generally better than TAD, and much better than most
  other programs.
- Many IFF output formats are supported, including HAM, sliced HAM, dynamic
  HAM and dynamic hires.

Operation

Wasp reads the input file and tries to recognize it. If this succeeds
it prints some information about the format of the file and the size
of the picture. If the outfile argument was omitted, wasp stops here.
Otherwise it reads the input file, and converts it to the internal
format; 12-bits RGB. It optionally applies operations such as clipping
and scaling to the internal picture, and then converts it to the requested
output format.

Comments

Comments, suggestions, bug reports, and dollar bills (uuencoded, of course)
can be sent to sreiz@cs.vu.nl, I would appreciate some feedback, let me
know what you think about wasp!

Options

If wasp is invoked without options it prints an extensive list of all
the options it understands. When in doubt: Use the Force, Read the Source.

Example

``wasp -sliced l.gif l.sham'' converts the GIF file l.gif to sliced HAM.

Have fun!

	Steven