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From: hirchert@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Kurt Hirchert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Contour Plotting Package for the Ma
Message-ID: <1990Mar11.231846.17595@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 90 23:18:46 GMT
References: <9962@portia.Stanford.EDU> <20200104@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Mar10.055215.15033@cs.UAlberta.CA>
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In article <1990Mar10.055215.15033@cs.UAlberta.CA> simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike) writes:
>I just downloaded the program 'contours' from the NCSA archive
>zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu, and while the documentation makes the program look
>promising, nowhere does it explain the format of the raster file required
>for input.  Just for good measure, though, it was able to input the
>accompanying 'readme' file (full of text) and plot it without choking.
>Still, I am not a cryptologist.  Does anyone know how the input data
>should be prepared? (there is no e-mail contact address in the documents)
Contours reads a raw raster file, i.e. a file containing a row-wise array of
bytes containing raster values between 0 and 255.  E-mail contact address =
softdev@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
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Kurt W. Hirchert     hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu
National Center for Supercomputing Applications