MODULE NAME : WRITE ANY IMAGE

OUTPUTS	    : image  2D 4-vector byte

PARAMETERS  : filename		        file browser
	      image file format 	choice

MODULE DESCRIPTION : This module writes an image from an AVS Network
                     in a variety of formats.  All formats which the
		     San Diego Supercomputing Center's image tools support,
		     this module supports.  With this module you can 
		     write out an AVS image in MacPaint format for inclusion
		     in a to-be published document !!


Any of the following image file formats can be read in by this module :

eps     Encapsulated PostScript file,
gif     Compuserve Graphics image file,
hdf     Hierarchical Data File,
icon    Sun Icon and Cursor file,
iff     Sun TAAC Image File Format,
mpnt    Apple Macintosh MacPaint file,
pbm     Portable Bit Map file,
pcx     ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file,
pgm     Portable Gray Map file,
pic     PIXAR picture file,
pict    Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file,
pix     Alias image file,
pnm     Portable aNy Map file,
ppm     Portable Pixel Map file,
ps      PostScript file,
ras     Sun Rasterfile,
rgb     SGI RGB image file,
rla     Wavefront raster image file,
rle     Utah Run length encoded image file,
rpbm    Raw Portable Bit Map file,
rpgm    Raw Portable Gray Map file,
rpnm    Raw Portable aNy Map file,
rppm    Raw Portable Pixel Map file,
synu    Synu image file,
tiff    Tagged image file,
x       Stardent AVS X image file,
xbm     X11 bitmap file,
xwd     X Window System window dump image file.

CREDITS
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MODULE AUTHOR:	Terry Myerson
		International AVS Center
		North Carolina Supercomputing Center
		avs@ncsc.org

This module is entirely based upon the San Diego Supercomputing Center's
Image Tool library.  For more information, send email to info@sdsc.edu

SDSC FILES YOU MAY NEED TO COMPILE THIS MODULE
----------------------------------------------
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs      14852 Nov 23  1992 arg.h*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs      11534 Nov 23  1992 bin.h*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs      29938 Nov 23  1992 im.h*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs    1047665 Nov 23  1992 libim.a*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs      86592 Nov 23  1992 libsdsc.a*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs       5295 Nov 23  1992 sdsc.h*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs      14798 Nov 23  1992 sdscconfig.h*
-rwxrwxr-x  1 avs       8231 Nov 23  1992 tag.h*

You can get these via anonymous ftp to:

ftp.sdsc.edu:/pub/sdsc/graphics/imtools/<PLATFORM>
                (there are a bunch of diferent platforms supported)
Name:    rosebud.sdsc.edu
Address:  198.17.47.33
Aliases:  ftp.sdsc.edu

There's a couple of files out there under

        /pub/sdsc/graphics/imtools/<PLATFORM>

(there are a bunch of diferent platforms supported).  You will need to
grab imtools_v2.1.tar.Z and libsdsc_v2.1.tar.Z, uncompress and untar them,
and you will find the .h and other files in there.