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From: Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: .PCX files
Message-ID: <15972@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Mar 89 19:09:16 GMT
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   The .PCX files you are asking about are created with IBM software
called PC Paintbrush.  It also generates similar 'brush' files (portions
of the screen) with the extension .PCC.  I think the software sells for
somewhere in the $150-$200 range.  Deluxe Paint for the IBM has a conver-
sion utility which interconverts some of the plethora of IBM graphics
file formats.  (Deluxe Paint generates .LBM files consistent with IFF
ILBM files which are standard on the Amiga.)  DPaint will convert .PCX to
.LBM and vice versa.
   If you wish to convert them for your own application or to view them,
you're going to find documentation on those many file formats is sometimes
hard to get.  Check your IBM PD sources for conversion routines.  Or ask
people here.  It seems the biggest topic on the net lately in graphics is
'what's the format so I can write a conversion routine?'  I'm sorry to see
so much energy and expertise expended on re-re-re-re-reinventing the wheel.
                                             LadyHawke@cup.portal.com