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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: esperanto
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Date: Fri, 22-May-87 14:02:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 22 14:02:47 1987
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In article <8705211811.AA29952@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> EDSTROM@UNCAEDU.BITNET writes:
>I want to transmit graphs and such from my atari to a friend's Macintosh in
>a distant city. Is there any common graphic language that can be used by
>both machines?

Your best bet is likely to be a RLE (Run Length Encoding) scheme. Run
Length Encoding builds a file with scanline information (i.e., four
white pixels, then three black, then ten white, then sixteen black, etc.)
and almost every computer has conversion to and from RLE. There are
two programs for the ST that do this - Pickswitch v7.0 converts from
RLE format to Neochrome or DEGAS format, and DEGTORLE converts from DEGAS
to RLE format.

There are probably similar programs for the Mac, but I have no idea what they
might be.

- Bruce
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