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On Mon, 19 Nov 90 21:09:55 GMT Brian Campbell said:
>I forgot who originally posted the question, but the person wanted to know
>how to decode or unpack Dpaint II pics.  I wrote a program a while back to do

DeluxePaint II pictures are saved as Apple Preffered Format ($C0).

>and display it on the screen or convert it to a screen format file.  As I
> recall, the
>algorithm was fairly simple.  The hardest part may be getting past all of the
> header
>stuff in the Dpaint II picture file (type $C1, I think).  I can provide you

File type $C1 is just a raw, unpacked picture file.

>with
> the
>algorithm to do all of this stuff I you need it.  BTW, does anyone know whether
> the
>file is packed using the TOOLBOX Pack routine, i.e., can the UNPACK routine be
> used in
>lieu of my algorithm? (at least past the header part.)

Yes.

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