GIF file converter

[john howell]

In article <771 at odin.SGI.COM>, msc at ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
> In article <125 at suntc.UUCP>, jh34607 at suntc.UUCP (john howell) writes: 
> > Fantastic!!  Now .. does anyone have a "tosun" program to move Iris
> > imagefiles to a Sun Rasterfile format?
> 
> It's in 4Dgifts, called tonews.
> 
> --
> From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
> msc at ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl,sun}!sgi!msc
> "There is much virtue in a window.  It is to a human being as a frame is to
> a painting, as a proscenium to a play.  It strongly defines its content."

I am aware that "tonews" exists, but I want to make Sun raster files
that can be used on pre-NeWS suns (like pretty much all of them).  Isn't
the native Sun raster image file format a different beast than NeWS?