In order to get it installed without make, remove its dependencies on AUTOLOAD. That process is even described in the README that comes with it.

Or, you can pull the code you're interested it out of the module.

bart, duh, thanks so much. I guess I never knew some modules were written in perl. I should have guessed that. I couldn't get it to work by using 'use lib "/path/to/my/local/lib"; but I took your second idea, extracted the code into a .pl file and called it as a require. That solved the project's last outstaning requirement. Thanks so much I bow before the monk gates ;> STmindfulORM www.mindfulinthestorm.org

A Google search for graphic image file format turned up a bunch of sites including http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/ which seems fairly comprehensive. If you can decipher the file header formats from these documents you should be able to read it in with perl using sysread (make sure you use binmode especially if you are not on *nix). You can then read the header using unpack (see Pack/Unpack Tutorial (aka How the System Stores Data) for some assistance there).

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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In fact you can even override other perl modules with your own copy. Look up the 'use lib' pragma.

Come to think of it, you can even install and use your own copy of perl.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

open(FILE, "$image");
    binmode(FILE);
my($kind, $tsize) = (0,0);
read(FILE, $kind, 6);

if($kind =~/GIF/){
      read(FILE, $tsize,4);
      ($a, $b, $c, $d) = unpack("C" x4,$tsize);
      ($x, $y) = ($b<<8|$a, $d<<8|$c);
                  }
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