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From: jef@webster.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xwd file format
Message-ID: <8803270235.AA16830@webster.sybase.uucp>
Date: 27 Mar 88 02:35:13 GMT
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I've been looking at the format of the bitmap files produced by xwd.
The header is described in XWDFile.h, and it's all nice and machine-
independent.  But if you look at xwd.c, you will find that it writes
out XColor structs directly.  This doesn't seem very portable -- the
actual size of this struct could vary from compiler to compiler.
Since xwd goes to great lengths to be machine-independent, this seems
weird.

Can someone who knows more about it than I do comment on whether the
XColors should be translated to 32-bit xwdvals before they are written
out?  Naturally this would mean bumping the XWD_FILE_VERSION.
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Jef

        Jef Poskanzer   pacbell!sybase!jef@Sun.Com   jef@lbl-rtsg.ARPA