Subject: Re: Unix based Graphics file format id program sought

From: [email-masked] (Peter Jaspers-Fayer)
Date: 13 Sep 1994 18:42:03 GMT

Larry W. Virden ([email-masked]) wrote:
 >Surely someone has created a tool to identify the essential features
 >of an image file - format, resolution, number of colors - have they not?
 >If so, could someone point me in the proper direction?

Look in archie for "lspic".  Sample output below, _readme excerpt first:
A line of lspic output has the following format:

<fsize> <width>x<height> [<nframes>/<speed>] [<ncols>](B|C|?)[<colrez>]
[<type>] [<fname>]

% lspic -t 

   105395  640x 480    C24 JFIF   DF940908.JPG
    17191  640x 480    C24 JFIF   asprin.jpg
   184920 1024x 651    C24 JFIF   castl025.Spain.Guadamur.jpg
   289404  640x 480 256C24 GIF87a forest.gif
   409600  352x 240        MPEG   bicycle.mpg
  8455086 2616x3232 256B8  TIFF   .Images/.tmp/vc.tiff

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