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From: curt@cctb.wa.com (Curt Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: REQUEST: bitmap format help
Keywords: BITMAP BMP HELP ITS GOT ME ESCAPE WHILE YOU CAN
Message-ID: <bonig8el1@cctb.wa.com>
Date: 31 Mar 91 08:07:20 GMT
References: <6829@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Organization: Chemical Computer Thinking Battery, Redmond, WA
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In article <6829@rex.cs.tulane.edu> keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Sean Ceitinn) writes:
| Maybe somebody out there can help me.  In the SDK Reference - Volume 2,
| the data structure BITMAPFILEHEADER has the field bfType, which is
| described by: "Specifies the size in DWORDs of the file."  According to
| Petzold's article in the 11 September 1990 of PC Magazine, the field
| "specifies the size of the file in bytes."  I assume that Petzold is
| correct, and not Microsoft.  Am I correct?

You are correct.

It is a DWORD that specifies the size of the .BMP file in BYTES.

(you can see where the error came from...)


Curt Johnson == curt@cctb.wa.com


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