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From: mlab2@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Moving NeXT TIFF to Mac, Help requested.
Message-ID: <24656.266cb3d1@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 90 12:42:09 GMT
References: <1990May21.184646.11394@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <1990May21.184646.11394@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jonathon Sivier ) writes:
> In article <9556@hydra.gatech.EDU> scott@kong.UUCP (Scott Coulter) writes:
>>
>>Can anyone post details of what's in this header?  Most helpful would be a
>>complete listing, so that one could generate an Apple-type header.
>>Also useful would be simply a "signature", i.e. what to look for in the
>>first 3 or 4 bytes that would be the tip-off that one needs to delete the
>>first 128 bytes (useful if writing a program to read TIFFs that would want to
>>distinguish between a standard TIFF and an Apple-type TIFF).
> 
> I know that the header put on by the Apple scanner starts as follows
> 
> 2 bytes - length of file name string
> ? bytes - original name of file saved by apple scanner in ASCII
> 
> then there are some numbers and stuff in ASCII but I don't know what they
> signify.
> 
> Hope this helps a little
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jonathan Sivier
> jsivier@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
>