THESE ARE THE NOTES I TOOK AS I WENT ALONG UPDATING THE
THORAX ATLAS ON THE WEB, FROM THE NEW VERSION OF THE
THORAX CD-ROM...

made a Thorax directory in D!-2.1/ATLASES on avalo.

copied Index and Scans from CD-ROM data to this ATLASES/Thorax dir.

created "gifs" dir in Thorax dir. created "Scans" dir in "gifs" dir.

guessed that "Thorax Splash" was the root-level frame, and ran
  framelister "Thorax Splash" Thorax
  to create the frame_table.txt -- luckily i made parseFrame() handle old
  format framefiles still...
  - got one error msg:
    Bogus Frame Link: Index/DMCindex/Slab Sections/Slab1/2Surfaces

ran ~bradley/bin/picts2gifs.pl (with no args) in Thorax/Scans and each
  subdirectory, to convert all the picts to gifs.
  - there is a problem though, not all picts are named .pict

went into DA-2.1/src and ftp'd exFrame.c and impFrame.c from scala

went into DA-2.1/src and did 'make exFrame'

went into DA-2.1/src and did 'make impFrame'

ftp'd convertAtlas.pl from scala, and modified path vars to be correct.

did 'chmod +x convertAtlas.pl'

ran 'convertAtlas.pl Thorax' to turn all framefiles into new format.

wrote a script ~bradley/bin/iterAtlas.pl that takes an atlas and a program
  as paramters, and passes the full path of each framefile in the frametable
  for the given atlas to the given program.

wrote a script ~bradley/bin/checkPICTname.pl that takes the path to a
  new-style framefile and prints a warning message if the pict is not
  correctly named.

ran 'iterAtlas.pl Thorax checkPICTname.pl' and it turns out none of the
  badly named pict files are sourced in any of the frames.

made a dir named TRASH inside each dir that had badly named pict files,
  and move the badly named pict files into these TRASH dirs.

made a parent dir to Scans named gifs.

made a .imgbase file with contents 'GIF'

made a .authors file with the biostr and uwPeople

wrote fixPICT.pl that takes a framefile path and changes that framefile
  to use TYPE "GIF" instead of "PICT" and changes .pict to .gif in the path.

ran 'iterAtlas.pl Thorax fixPICT.pl' to convert the whole atlas from PICT
   to GIF.

changed the name of the Scans dir (that used to have picts, but now has gifs)
  to be gifs/Scans.

now it seems to work fine.

-swb 97.02.xx