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From: andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PackBits routine
Message-ID: <1455@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 28 Dec 89 03:27:50 GMT
References: <96197@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Reply-To: andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman)
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In article <96197@pyramid.pyramid.com> bjb@pyrshadow.pyramid.com (Bruce Beare) writes:
>........  Packbits seems to do some sort of a run-length encoding, but I 
>don't believe that it is completely specified in IM. I've found no TNs 
>that describe exactly what it does.
>
>Has anyone come across this little bit of trivia?

Trivia indeed!  Check out TN #171.  It ONLY took me about 10 minutes to
find this myself, having remembered that I saw this description
somewhere.  It seems that this Technote isn't reffered to by any of the
indexes under the word "Packbits".  Strange...

	Andy