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From: jerry@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jerry Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: RAY-tracing
Summary: Help wanted
Keywords: QRT DBW GIF IBM VGA AMIGA COMPUSERVE
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Date: 20 Nov 89 07:48:11 GMT
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Reply-To: jerry@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Jerry Porter)
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I'm trying to port QRT to OS2 and/or other multitaskers.  Someone has 
ported a version to the IBM, but I don't have the source code, or an
address for the author.  I do have the source to QRT, but in order to 
display pictures I need to use two conversion utilities and I lose 2 bits
of color information somewhere(I think).  I would like to make the gif-encoding
a part of the QRT package,(command line option).  I can find a lot of info
on GIF decoding, but aside from the Compuserve spec, I can't find anything
about encoding.  I don't feel my skills are up to writing an encoder just
yet, without example code.  Any pointers to addresses(can you mail from 
internet to compuserve?) of the authors of these programs(QRT, RAW2TMP,
TMP2GIF) would be appreciated.  I would like to encourage the use of
this package, except for the problems of finding the authors.  


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