[Savannah-hackers] Re: autogen: GIF files

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bruce,

FYI: I got this from the FSF today.  As I'm sure you are aware, I'm somewhat
preoccupied at the moment (while I try to survive my divorce).  Could you sort
it out please mate?

Cheers,
        Gary.

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:35:06PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
>     Hi,
> 
>     Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
> autogen hosted on the GNU machines ? 
> 
>     For an explanation on why there are not GIF files on the GNU
> machines read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html. This policy was
> established years ago by the GNU project and is an integral part of
> the requirements for every project registering on savannah.gnu.org
> (see http://savannah.gnu.org/register/requirements.php).
> 
>     The home page of your project is 
>       http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/autogen/
> 
>     You can convert GIF files to PNG using the gif2png program.
>       http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/gif2png-2.4.2.tar.gz
> 
>     Here is a sample script to convert the GIF files that are in
> your web pages to PNG.
> 
>     export CVS_RSH=ssh
>     cvs -d address@hidden:/webcvs co software/autogen/
>     cd software/autogen/
> 
>     while read file 
>     do
>       gif2png -O $file.gif
>       cvs delete -f $file.gif
>       cvs add $file.png
>     done <<'EOF'
> pix/petition
> EOF
>     cvs commit -m 'Convert GIF to PNG'
> 
> 
>       Thanks for your help,
> 
>       The GNU volunteers, address@hidden

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