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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: File Formats?-DDIF & X11
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Date: 8 Aug 89 17:42:52 GMT
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In article <13363@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, jstravis@athena.mit.edu (John S. Travis) writes:
> We just got some DEC3100 workstations running ultrix & they have
> an installed appliaction dxpaint. In that program(similar to Macpaint)
> you can select Save As. Then the user is given the option of
> 2 formats DDIF, which i'm told is DIGITAL Document Interface Format, and
> X11.  What are these formats?

DDIF and tools for reading/writing it are documented in Digital manual
AA-LY28A-TE "Compound Document Architecture Manual".  It's part of the
standard Ultrix documentation set.  I assume that the X11 format is a
standard X bitmap file.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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