Hi All,

There are some notable changes with this release of the gifti C library.

1. Now zlib is optional, as was done with NIfTI. To use it HAVE_ZLIB must be defined at compile time. See Makefile for an example.

2. The nifti1.h file is #included, so that must be in your include path somewhere. The nifti library is not yet linked.

3. External programs only need to #include gifti_io.h now. The files gifti_xml.h, nifti1.h, expat.h and zlib.h are #included via gifti_io.h.

4. The gifti_test program has been reduced in functionality, so it can merely serve as a simple example of how to interface with the library.

5. The gifti_tool program has been added. This has all the functionality that gifti_test had, with some additions and changes. Note that to write a dataset (gifti, 1D or asc), one must now use the -write_* options, as the examples show under -help.

- rick