HELP: Opening & Reading Bitmap (*.BMP) Files?

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From: Skip Albertson
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:26

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I would like to open a windows bitmapped-file (*.BMP)
from Paintbrush for Windows (16(?) color, VGA screen)
and load the color-values, pixel-by-pixel, into an array.
I would like the final integer array to consist of numbers
like: 1, 16, 16, 2, 2, 2, 5 ..... etc. so that each represents
the total (RGB) color present at each pixel.  I'm writing code
in FORTRAN although QBASIC or C suggestions would be helpful
as well.

Why is it so hard to find structure info on *.BMP files?

OPEN (7, status='old', mode='binary',file='image.bmp')
read(7,100)
100  format (???????)

Thanks in advance for your help!

alberts@apl-em.apl.washington.edu

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Subject: HELP: Opening & Reading Bitmap (*.BMP) Files?
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Summary: HELP: Opening & Reading Bitmap (*.BMP) files?
Keywords: HELP, BITMAP, *.BMP
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:26:33 GMT
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