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From: pas@uunet!unhd (Paul A. Sand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PackBits routine
Message-ID: <1989Dec29.035332.7956@uunet!unhd>
Date: 29 Dec 89 03:53:32 GMT
References: <96197@pyramid.pyramid.com> <1455@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: pas@unhd.UUCP (Paul A. Sand)
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In article <1455@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM> andyp@gvgpvd.GVG.TEK.COM (Andy Peterman) writes:
[On finding PackBits format]
>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...

It's there, under "_PackBits"; which, is of course, far far away from
PackBits. Perhaps this would be a good one-liner:

"If you can't find it under 'foo' in the index, check '_foo'".
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