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From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PackBits/UnpackBits Format
Keywords: PackButs UnpackBits Compression Format
Message-ID: <41625@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 90 13:46:35 GMT
References: <2519@network.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2519@network.ucsd.edu> rmorgan@network.ucsd.edu (Robert Morgan) writes:
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know what format PackBits/UnpackBits uses ?
>Inside Mac vI-p470 is no help at all.  Does anybody have
>any C or Pascal code that "mimics" the two routines ?
>Any idea where I could find some better documentation about them ?
>
>I have to write such a routine on a non-macintosh (in order to unpack/pack
>bitmaps/PixMaps in PICT files).
>

Macintosh Technical Note #171, Things You Wanted to Know About _PackBits*

*But Were Afraid To Ask

may help you.  Available in all the usual places, including Apple.com.


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