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From: mlm@calmasd.Prime.COM (Monte Meals)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How does the X protocol deal with colors ?
Summary: Copyarea works on pixel values, not RGB levels
Message-ID: <451@calmasd.Prime.COM>
Date: 26 Jul 89 23:32:46 GMT
References: <8907261545.AA28766@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <8907261545.AA28766@expo.lcs.mit.edu>, TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM (Minh Tran-Le) writes:
> Does it use the 2 colormap entries (pixel value) or does it use the rgb
> values to do the logical combination ?
> 
Copyarea operates on pixel values. For a good description take a look at
chapter 7 in O'Reilly's book. It is included in the X11.3 distribution:
   X11.3/doc/tutorials/color.tbl.ms

Monte