help wanted: PICT file format, PICT archive?

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 04:16

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Hello, I'm writing a program to convert Sun color rasterfiles to Mac
PICT2 format so that we can drive a film recorder that's attached to a
Mac.  I've written most of the converter but the files won't display
on the Mac. I've noticed that some PICT2 files I looked at had more
than the minimum (according to me) opcodes. I assumed that a layout of

	512 byte header
	picSize
	picFrame
	opVersion
	$02ff
	opHeader
	...
	opPackBitsRect
	...
	opEndPicture

would work, but are these opcodes critical: clipRgn, defHiLite,
shortComment?

We're transferring the file via ftp to the Mac. Do we have to do
anything to the file after ftp to make it acceptable to PICT2 reading
programs?

The other question is where can I find a ftp archive of PICT2 pictures
to disassemble?

Please reply by email, I don't read this newsgroup normally. I'll
forward replies if requested. Thanks in advance.

	Ken
	ken@cs.rochester.edu
	...!rochester!ken

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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: help wanted: PICT file format, PICT archive?
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Date: 10 Apr 90 04:16:42 GMT
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