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From: chuck@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Chuck Rissmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: .pcx files
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Date: 1 Sep 89 20:15:18 GMT
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In article <5255@tank.uchicago.edu> stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios  valavanis) writes:
>does anybody know what files with extension .pcx are?  i'm fairly
>certain they're some kind of graphics files but i don't have any
>graphics prog to find out.
>stel
>-- 

Graphics, Yup, that's for sure, but to add some more to your question:

It seems that PC Paintbrush is the program that uses this as its standard,
but I've seen PCX files that my PC Paintbrush can't load yet I can display them
on my VGA monitor with other programs.  My question then is, are there programs
that use the PCX extension to store graphics files in formats other than
PC Paintbrushes?  If so, WHY?  And then there's the ubiquitous PIC extension that seems to plague me with the same problem.