I appreciate everyone's attempt to help me, will even ignore those of you talking down on me

(For now) Now if you could please ;isten to me that would help.
Here is the situation, I have a number of images in pcx format, all of them named grunt0000.pcx to grunt0263.pcx, all of them in a separate folder. First attempt I right clicked on the first image, grunt0000.pcx and selected copy as shp(ts). The status bar displays that the process has been succesful. Then still in xcc mixer I click on the new shp (grunt.shp), that's where my woes start, the image count for grunt.shp is 1 not 264 but 1, and it displays that shp as only 1 image, not a string of images like with all the ingame shp, the displayed image happens to be the last image in the series grunt0263.pcx. All I need is someone to tell me the correct way to make shp's cause obviously there's something I am missing here.
A little step by step tutorial as to how to make shp's would be nice. Whoever will/might provide me with this tutorial, presume that my starting point is a bunch of jpg's files, and just tell me how to go from there, please.
Does anyone have Darkelf's url, or anyway of contacting him?