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From: phil@anduin.cs.liverpool.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: WriteNow 2.x limitation
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.122659.17439@anduin.cs.liverpool.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Sep 90 11:26:58 GMT
References: <1527.26ecfa5d@waikato.ac.nz> <90255.180525KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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In article <90255.180525KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>, <KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> writes:
> But PICT resources can't be any bigger than 32K (see QD chapter in IM I)
> so how do you generate them?

No longer true - see TN 154 "Displaying large PICT files"  Basically 128K ROMS
and above just read PICTs until they get to the end-of-picture opcode, the
length bytes are ignored.

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