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From: gandalf@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: FAX coding scheme wanted
Message-ID: <5399@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 7 Sep 88 01:17:30 GMT
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The FAX formats are documented in CCITT Recommendation T.4 and T.6 (Group 3
and Group 4, respectively) of Fascicle VII.3. Basically, FAX formats use run-
length encoding with variable-length bit fields. Horrible to understand, and
even worse to parse... Currently, I am trying to write a converter module
which reads/writes G3/G4 FAX files, and produces my standard bitmap format.

-- 
Juergen "Gandalf" Wagner,		   gandalf@csli.stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA