[Savannah-hackers] Re: www: GIF files

[Ron Peterson]

Hi,

Why has this message been sent to me personally?  This should really
be sent to address@hidden

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:50:50PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
>     Hi,
> 
>     Could you please remove the following GIF files from the project
> www 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/www/
> 
>     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 
>     cd 
> 
>     while read file 
>     do
>       gif2png -O $file.gif
>       cvs delete -f $file.gif
>       cvs add $file.png
>     done <<'EOF'
> software/cfengine/cfconsole/cfconsole
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img1
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img2
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img3
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/img4
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22381/img1
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img2
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img3
> software/cfengine/cfengine-NT/l2h22543/img4
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric3
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric4
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric5
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric6
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric7
> software/gnumeric/gnumeric8
> software/lilypond/docxx/down
> software/lilypond/docxx/icon1
> software/lilypond/docxx/icon2
> software/lilypond/docxx/logo
> software/mswordview/mswordview
> software/nosql/NoSQL
> EOF
>     cvs commit -m 'Convert GIF to PNG'
> 
> 
>       Thanks for your help,
> 
>       The GNU volunteers, address@hidden

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