GIL images typically have one of two filename extensions: .gil or .gif. I highly recommend that everyone use the .gil format. Why? The extension .gif is now in common use as an extension for a world-standard file format called (I think!) Generic Image Format. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT the format used by the GIL. The simplest way I know of to make the difference clear is to use the new .gil format. Please help yourself and everyone else by avoiding the .gif confusion!
The following tables should serve as a decent index to find the main reference to most of the GIL's procedures and data types. The first table lists (almost?) all of the items in their order of appearance in the document A Programmers's Guide to the Generalized Image Library. The second table lists the same procedures but in alphabetical order. Note that some of the procedure names in the first table below include two special letters, @ and #, which can take on the values {f, l, i, s, c} and {d, f, i, u}, respectively.
Table 1: Order of appearance list of GIL procedures and data structures
Table 2: Alphabetical order list of GIL procedures and data structures
15 November 1995 Created by Peter W. Rander (rander@cs.cmu.edu)
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