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From: bjb@pyrshadow.pyramid.com (Bruce Beare)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PackBits routine
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Date: 28 Dec 89 17:45:15 GMT
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In article <1455@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM> andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy 
Peterman) writes:
> 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

Mea Culpa. I tried to use the 'Tech Notes' stack -- for the first time. I 
checked the index for 'packbits' and did not find it. It never occured to 
me to look under the 'misc' category and find the '_packbits' routine. Thanks
to the several responders who pointed me to #171.

Gee, that was obvious, wasn't it.

-Bruce