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From: kyriazis@pawl4.pawl.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Sun rasterfiles.
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Date: 1 May 88 19:08:54 GMT
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In article <1051@luth.luth.se> Sven-Ove Westberg <sow@cad.luth.se> writes:
>
>Did anyone know the format of Suns runlength encoding in the
>Run rasterfiles. I also appreciate a RTFM if you enclose the
>manual name and page number. The only information I have found
>is this short comment in the "rasterfile.h".
>
>#define RT_BYTE_ENCODED	2	/* Run-length compression of bytes */
>
>Please note, I am asking for the format not how to read a rasterfile
>with the sunlibraries.
>

You can certainly write a RT_BYTE_ENCODED rasterfile pretty easy using the
appropriate pixrect routine.  You have a pixrect and you dump it to a
rasterfile with pr_dump().  You can give the RT_BYTE_ENCODED option there.


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