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Re: problem manipulating binary data in postscript

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From: Goldman of Chaos
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:20
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In article <1992Dec28.171257.27785@news2.cis.umn.edu> cahoon@femto.cs.umn.edu (Forrest Clinton Cahoon) writes:
>I'm trying to write some postscript which will color a hexagonal grid,
>reading the color data from the end of my ps file.  I'm reading one
>byte for each hexagon, then doing some bit-twiddling to get values to call
>setrgbcolor with before filling the hexagon.
>
>I've got a version using "read" which works, but since "read" treats my
>newline characters as valid binary data, it's not entirely
>satisfactory.

Cool, please let me know what you come up with.  I've been playing
around with multi-colored hex maps; however, I've been building the
hex map one hex at a time.  The end result is nice; however, there 
must be a better way to go about it.

Matt Goldman
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