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From: prem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem Subrahmanyam)
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Subject: Re: ftp sites (Was Re: Images Group)
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Date: 14 Nov 89 21:12:41 GMT
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In article <1935@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall@atanasoff.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
>    I FTP'd a couple of these images, but what kind of image format is
>    RST (i.e., one of the files was named beach2.rst)?  Does anyone have
>    info on this format?

   Sun-raster (makes sense since the machine on which they reside is a
   color Sun 3/60).  The FBM package by Michael Mauldin can convert to
   and from this format to others (Amiga IFF, GIF, FACE, etc.).  I don't
   have the specs on the Sun raster format, sorry.
   ---Prem Subrahmanyam