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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: GIF file converter
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Date: 5 Oct 89 22:08:23 GMT
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In article <128@suntc.UUCP>, jh34607@suntc.UUCP (john howell) writes:
> I am aware that "tonews" exists, but I want to make Sun raster files
> that can be used on pre-NeWS suns (like pretty much all of them).  Isn't
> the native Sun raster image file format a different beast than NeWS?

As far as I'm aware, they are the same.  We certainly use the same rasterfile.h
file that is (or was when we received the source code) shipped with
SunOS/SunWindows.
If tonews has a limitation it's that it only knows how to make .im8 files.
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