				History

This program was written by a German university student named Alexander
Lehmann <alex@hal.rhein-main.de> in 1995. He evolved it to a beta
version 0.6 and then dropped off the face of the net.  In Fall 1999,
after the program had been stable and in production use for four years, 
Greg Roelofs <newt@pobox.com> added some minor features and released 0.7.

A short time later, with Greg's consent, I took over maintaining
gif2png in order to give it a proper manual page and release
packaging. We will cheerfully hand the maintainer's baton back to
Alexander Lehmann if he ever re-surfaces and wants it.

1.2.2:
	* Fixed a bug in configure that was preventing it from finding
	the png library properly.

1.2.1:
	* Fixed a brown-paper-bag bug -- web2png ignored directory
	arguments.

1.2.0:
	* Added capability to handle BACKGROUND tags and http URLs.
	Thanks to Rob Reid <reid@astro.utoronto.ca>.

1.1.1:
	* Fixed bug in converting grayscale images which are
	smaller when paletted (unusual situation).  Thanks to 
        Borek Lupomesky <Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz> for sending 
        us the image that revealed this problem.

1.1.0:
	* Added -w (web-probe) option for use with web2png and other script.
	* Added 0.99 release of web2png script.

1.0.0:
	* Dramatically improved manual page.
	* Added -O option, replaced -q with -v
	* Fixed a bug affecting multiple conversions after a grayscale image.

0.99:
	* -d option now actually deletes the source GIF(s).
	* Release packaging using automake/autoconf


