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	About ANIMATE.EXE

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PURPOSE:
ANIMATE.EXE is a utility that was developed to enable 
animation of digital images (especially scientific image data).
ANIMATE also provides file conversion capability to popular file
formats (BMP, TIF, AVI)

ANIMATE is SHAREWARE.  
This version is fully functional, but may only be used for 30 days.  

FILE FORMATS:
Currently, the Animate supports the following file formats:

.FTS - FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) (read only)
.BMP - Windows' device independent bitmap format and 
.SPE - Princeton Instruments' proprietary file format. (read only)
.TIF - Aldus TIFF files 
.AVI - Audio Visual Interleave format (writing only)

Generic - Animate will try to open the files using a generic
	interface if an unrecognized file type is opened

Custom - It is possible to write your own image file converters
	See documentation and examples in CONVERT.ZIP
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	Installing ANIMATE.EXE:

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Move CTL3DV2.DLL to your windows directory. (You may already
have a copy of it there.)

Leave the .CNV files in the same directory as ANIMATE.EXE

-Aneil Mallavarapu 
(mallav@itsa.ucsf.edu)
