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From: rob@redcloud.ucar.edu (Robert P. Montgomery)
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Subject: DirectColor from xwd?
Keywords: DirectColor, Titan, xwd
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Date: 24 May 89 04:01:49 GMT
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Would someone please describe the DirectColor/TrueColor data format from
an xwd dump.  (I wish to convert output from an Ardent Titan to another
format.)

Thanks,

Rob Montgomery		(rob@ncar.ucar.edu)


By the way, here is an example table of header values from a 3308850 byte-
long file:

 window_name      :     Dore Window 
 header_size      :       114     file_version     :         7
 pixmap_format    :   ZPixmap     pixmap_depth     :        24
 pixmap_width     :       907     pixmap_height    :       912
 xoffset          :         0     byte_order       :  MSBFirst
 bitmap_unit      :        32     bitmap_bit_order :  MSBFirst
 bitmap_pad       :        32     bits_per_pixel   :        32
 bytes_per_line   :      3628     visual_class     :         5
 red_mask         :  16711680     green_mask       :     65280
 blue_mask        :       255     bits_per_rgb     :        24
 colormap_entries :       256     ncolors          :         0
 window_width     :       910     window_height    :       910
 window_x         :         0     window_y         :         0
 window_bdrwidth  :         1

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