This code was orginally written by Arthur Simoneau, The Aerospace Corporation,
El Segundo, Calif. and was called 'cifp'.  'cifp' would only take MAGIC
SCMOS cif input and generate postscript for a single page of output.

I've since taken it and modified it to accept cmos-pw technology for our
local needs at Arizona State University.  The biggest improvement I made
was to get multiple page output.  Each page is numbered with (x,y) coordinates
so you know its proper sequence.  Also each page overlaps with its neighbor,
so you can cut and paste if you want.  The program will rescale the
user-specific scale to avoid producing blank pages.  A scaling limit of 5
by 5 has been put in the program to eliminate massive outputs.  Cif2ps can
generate a postscript file in the multi-megabyte range very easily.
I renamed the program to 'cif2ps' to be more descriptive of its function.

Two test files have been included, cmos-pw.test.cif and scmos.test.cif.
The file cmos-pw.test.cif was generated using the IGS2CIF program version
2a.04 on a HP EGS Graphics system.  The file scmos.test.cif is from the
original 'cifp' distribution.  To plot this file you must use the '-T'
option on 'cif2ps'.

Cif2ps is now used here in place of cifplot from the Berkeley VSLI
distribution.

STANDARD DISCLAMER:
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The authors and their organizations assume no responsibility for the use
by the recipient of this program.

Marc Lesure
Engineering Computer Services
Arizona State Univerity

