
This is an alpha-1 version of my gfto program which converts MetaFont
GF files to various other formats. Just running gfto with no arguments
will print out a Usage message, all it's really trying to do is locate
the GF input file and spew out the output file, nothing too exotic to
understand.

The postscript code is not useful yet so I conditionalized the hooks
to it out for now, I'm working on that. When done it will produce a
file which can be used to download a GF font to a postscript device
(printer.) This should allow a parallel set of fonts from a common
source to be used on various resolution devices by just varying the
MetaFont parameters to produce the appropriate GF file and then
post-processing with gfto.

I suppose it would be easy enough to add routines for things like
vfont at this point (just add the flag to main.c and write a routine
like the one in image.c.) I guess I need a better reason than "it's
easy" to be bothered (what do people use vfonts for these days?
Sunview?  Not a big future in that.) Anyhow, I'd be happy to collate
others' code into this and redistribute.

The only thing you should need to change is the default GFDIR path in
gfto.h (which you'll almost certainly have to change.) It tries to
find a GF file by various typical methods, following the compiled in
GFDIR path, looking for an environment variable "GFDIR" and looking in
the current directory or specified path literally. Typical stuff (see
Fopen() in util.c, perhaps the search order should be changed.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University
	BZS@BU-CS.BU.EDU
New Address: Barry Shein, Encore Computer Corporation, BZS@ENCORE.COM
