Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!gryphon!desint!geoff
From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: PAX Format Package
Message-ID: <11@desint.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 07:35:48 GMT
References: <133@mirsa.inria.fr>
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA
Lines: 12

In article <133@mirsa.inria.fr> daniel@mirsa.inria.fr
(Daniel Dardailler) writes:

> Since the X window system do not propose a standard file format for pixmap
> distribition, we at BULL Research have made one called the PAX (Ascii
> PiXmap) format for our own use, and are releasing it in the public domain.

I haven't read the proposal yet, but how about calling it something other
than PAX?  That name has recently been preempted for a new portable
archiver (cf. comp.sources.unix in the past few weeks).
-- 
	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff