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From: a976@mindlink.UUCP (Ron Tarrant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DumpToIff Insight
Message-ID: <3199@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 90 22:56:22 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> kenb@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <1990Sep16.175637.16978@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
> Posted: 16 Sep 90 17:56:37 GMT
> 
> Person: Ken Baynard
> 
> 
> DumpToIff finally crashed after on me after several successful
> uses and apparently the reason had to do when I JOINed 2 raw files
> together. I had started a trace that had gotten to line 29 and
> 'someone' got to the keyboard and stopped it so I restared from
> line 29 using a different filename. After the trace was finished I
> joined the files and tried DumpToIff. It crashed with stacks of
> 300K and 500K and after that I figured it was'nt a stack problem.
> I went and converted both parts seperately and joined them with
> PhotonPaint and it looks great. If one could figure a way to
> eliminate the header of each joined file ($3f019001) then it
> may be able to go through unscathed.


If I remember correctly, the cods suggest an overlap of one scanline for
joining two partial images together. This may be the source of your problem.
-Ron Tarrant
a976@Mindlink.UUCP