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From: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Unsupported TIFF question
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Date: 8 Jun 90 03:42:31 GMT
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In article <12181@june.cs.washington.edu> wjs@last.cac.washington.edu (William Shipley) writes:
>giant@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Buc Richards) writes:
>>Many of the TIFF files stored on the NeXT library, particularly those
>>in the Webster Dictionary pictures file, appear to have a non-standard
>>TIFF format.
>
>>Can I get a description of this TIFF extension and the associated
>>compression scheme?
>
>Probably not.  ....  I've seen this question asked before, and I've never 
>seen it answered. 

Get Sam Leffler's tiff library from ucbvax.berkeley.edu.  It understands
the NeXT compression.


Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu		DoD 000006
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-737-3251