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.TH gifburst 1 "giflib\-tools"

.SH NAME
gifburst \- 
The gifburst program takes a named GIF file and breaks it into equal\-sized
tiles.  This is useful if a GIF is too large for your viewer, so you have 
to look at it in sections.

.SH USAGE

.B gifburst [\-s n] [\-p b] gif\-file


.SH MEMORY REQUIRED

Proportional to the size of the largest pasted image.

.SH OPTIONS

.IP "[\-s nnn]

 Specify the number of pieces.  Valid values are presently 4 (2x2)
and 6 (2x3).  Default is 4.

.IP "[\-p nnn]

 Specify the number of pixels of overlap between interior boundaries
of pieces.  Default 20.

.SH Note:

The gifburst program is written on Perl, using the C utilities.  You must have 
both the giflib utilities and Perl installed to run it.

.SH AUTHOR

Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>


Man page created by T.Gridel <tgridel@free.fr>, originally written by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>