README for XIcon version 1.0 04 Jan 1993 XIcon is a conversion program for translating icons between various formats. It was written by Norman Walsh <norm@ora.com> using EMX/GCC. XIcon reads: Mac icon resources (raw resource forks) Windows icon files X11 XBM files OS/2 v1.2 Icon files OS/2 v2.0 Icon files XIcon writes: OS/2 v1.2 Icon files OS/2 v2.0 Icon files Windows Icon files (well, sortof--it's mostly untested) X11 XPM files My appologies for the poor documentation and hideous command line options of this program. For a brief summary of the available options, run XIcon without any parameters. Here is a brief summary: xicon <options> input output Will convert the icons in "input" into OS/2 1.2 icons in "output". GENERAL OPTIONS -2 Write an OS/2 2.0 icon file instead -w Write a Windows icon file instead (largely untested) -x Write an XPM3 icon file instead OPTIONS FOR MAC RESOURCES -p Use Mac palette rather than OS/2 palette. -I Don't include ICN# resources (32x32x1 images) -# Don't include ics# resources (16x16x1 images) -l Don't include icl4 resources (32x32x4 images) -s Don't include ics4 resources (16x16x4 images) OPTIONS FOR XPM FILES -a Write all the icons. Since XPM files can only contain a single icon, xicon normally translates only the first icon found. If -a is specified, the output filename is used as a pattern and "#.xpm" is appended to it. If the output file is "test", xicon will create "test1.xpm", "test2.xpm", etc... -R Specifies an alternate colors database file. XPM files contain color names. In order to determine what names to use, xicon reads the "rgb.txt" file in /usr/local/lib/X11. If your rgb.txt file is somewhere else... Note: if you don't use X11, you probably don't have an rgb.txt file, so one is supplied in this distribution. Of course, if you don't have X11, you probably don't have much use for XPM files either... OPTIONS FOR XBM FILES -f Set foreground color to 'C'. -b Set background color to 'C' C=0..15 or 't' for transparent, or 'r' for reverse of background. -r Don't reverse the bit order of the bytes in the file. -m Set mask file. The mask file is ANDed with the background and the image. OPTIONS FOR MAC FILES ONLY -p Use Mac palette rather than OS/2 palette. -I Don't include ICN# resources (32x32x1 images) -# Don't include ics# resources (16x16x1 images) -l Don't include icl4 resources (32x32x4 images) -s Don't include ics4 resources (16x16x4 images) COPYRIGHT XIcon is Copyright (C) 1993, 94 by Norman Walsh XIcon is distributed under the GNU Copyleft. You are free to modify this code, but you cant take credit for the parts I wrote. See the file "COPYING" for more information. NO WARRANTY THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. COMMENTS? Whatever you think of this program, drop me a note and tell me. Some future version of this program will no doubt be a PM application with all kinds of bells and whistles. But this one ain't it.
