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From: kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Bitmap Vs. Pixmap
Keywords: Bitmap,Pixmap
Message-ID: <1151@zinn.MV.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 04:16:08 GMT
References: <11627@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <3703@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
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Well, that was a timely little introduction.
I had just come to wonder about this difference myself on Friday.
I wonder, though, if you (or someone) could expand on the difference
from a "user's" point of view.  For example, I know how to use the
'bitmap' program to create and edit bitmaps, and I know how to use
'atobm' and 'bmtoa' to import and export them;  but it gets hard to
understand when I go to use them with, say, xbiff and there is a
resource "XBiff*fullPixmap" that seems quite happy with just a *bitmap*.
I would *like* to give it a real pixmap, in the sense of being able
to provide more than -fg and -bg color, but have as yet found no
reference to a pixmap editor.

-- Kenn Goutal

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