1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>giftext</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1" /></head><body><div class="refentry"><a id="giftext.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><a id="name"></a><h2>Name</h2><p>giftext — dump GIF pixels and metadata as text</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><a id="synopsis"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">giftext</code> [-v] [-c] [-e] [-z] [-p] [-r] [-h] [<em class="replaceable"><code>gif-file</code></em>]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm24"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>A program to dump (text only) general information about GIF file.</p><p>If no GIF file is given, giftext will try to read a GIF file 3from stdin.</p></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm28"></a><h2>Options</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">-v</span></dt><dd><p> Verbose mode (show progress). 4Enables printout of running scan lines. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-c</span></dt><dd><p> Dumps the color maps.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-e</span></dt><dd><p> Dumps encoded bytes - the pixels after compressed using LZ 5algorithm and chained to form bytes. This is the form the data is 6saved in the GIF file. Dumps in hex - 2 digit per byte.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-z</span></dt><dd><p> Dumps the LZ codes of the image. Dumps in hex - 3 digits per 7code (as we are limited to 12 bits).</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-p</span></dt><dd><p> Dumps the pixels of the image. Dumps in hex - 2 digit per 8pixel (<=byte).</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-r</span></dt><dd><p> Dumps raw pixels as one byte per pixel. This option inhibits 9all other options and only the pixels are dumped. This option may be 10used to convert GIF files into raw data. Note: the color map can be 11extracted by gifclrmp utility. If more than one image is included in 12the file, all images will be dumped in order.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h</span></dt><dd><p> Print one line of command line help, similar to Usage 13above.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a id="idm59"></a><h2>Author</h2><p>Gershon Elber.</p></div></div></body></html>