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How to use transgif

Getting transgif

• If you only have access to an MS-DOS system, you should check out my instructions for getting a special version of transgif that runs under DOS.
• You can:
  • get transgif from Jeffrey's site, or
  • get it from my web server.
  The version at Jeffrey's site will always be the latest version (mine may be off by a week or two), but Jeffrey's web server seems to be on the other end of a very slow connection, and is down a fair amount of the time. At the moment (12/6/94), my copy of transgif is the latest version Jeffrey has.

  When you fetch transgif, you should save it as is in a file. I'll call the file "transgif", to make things easier. If you use a different filename, you should replace the name "transgif" with that name when you invoke commands. :-)

• If perl is not installed as /usr/local/bin/perl then you'll want to customize the script for your system:

  You need to change the first line of this script to specify the location of perl on your system. (If you edit the script, you probably should use a text editor like vi or ed or emacs.) If you don't know where to find perl on your computer, type the command "which perl", and that should tell you its pathname. If this doesn't work, you probably don't have perl, and will need to use the netpbm package instead of transgif.

• You need to make the file executable under unix. One way to do this is to type the command:

  chmod u+x transgif
  

• If you want to change the file mode (the access permissions) on the script so that anyone can read and/or run the script, you can type the command:

  chmod o+rx transgif
  

• That's all you have to do to install transgif! :-)

Using transgif