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Re: Stuff in libimage for RAM .sgi's

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From: Christopher Walker
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:40
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In article <BzDIC2.7wv@news.iastate.edu>, boylan@pi.eai.iastate.edu writes:
> Are there any functions in the image library for dealing with
> ..sgi images that have been loaded into memory?  What I'd like to
> do is load the run-length-encoded .sgi image files into memory
> verbatim and _then_ do a memory-based getrow().
> 
> I don't know if there's a sneaky way to make the library think it's
> looking at a file pointer with it's really looking at a pointer to
> memory.

I don't know about libimage but our libil product (ImageVision Library) knows
how to do this sort thing very well.. you might want to check it out.

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Chris Walker (x1106 or walker@sgi.com)
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From: walker@owl.asd.sgi.com (Christopher Walker)
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Subject: Re: Stuff in libimage for RAM .sgi's
Date: 17 Dec 1992 01:40:32 GMT
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