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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Help wanted with file format
Keywords: MacPaint, graphics
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Date: 24 Oct 89 04:48:52 GMT
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See if you can find a copy of Tech Note 86, which describes the file
format in detail, and gives C and Pascal examples for reading and writing
the file. LightSpeed C version 4 comes with source code, in art class, to
do this directly. Claris also publishes a tech note with this information,
and lastly, you probably should be writing PICT files, which can be read
by MacDraw, among others, since they don't restrict you to MacPaint's
576x720 bitmap, but let you use as much resolution as you want. A PICT
file is simply the data from a PicHandle preceded by 512 bytes of 0. 
See Tech note 154.

> The mac is a detour in the inevitable march of mediocre computers.
> drs@bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf)
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