Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU!RGOLDSTONE
From: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin Goldstone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: pixel manipulation in HC 2.0
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.225757.14922@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 22:57:57 GMT
Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET)
Reply-To: rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
Organization: California State University, Chico
Lines: 17

I need to work with a bitmapped graphic at the pixel level.  Someone on our
campus wrote a unix finger server that serves faces. They digitized a bunch
of people's faces and stored them online.  A finger client can specify a 
certain option and get back a face.  The face is represented as a PBM
format bitmap (apparently it is some standard - basically you get back a
horizontal and vertical number of pixels, followed by a string of binary
data, one bit per pixel).  

I am writing a HyperCard finger client using the mactcp toolkit. I want to be 
able to retrieve a face and stick it into a HyperCard field.  Can I do it?
I already have the basic finger client working, minus the face stuff.  Are
there any XCMDs that deal with pixels?

***********************************************************************
Robin Goldstone, Systems Software Specialist
California State University, Chico  Computing Services
rgoldstone@oavax.csuchico.edu