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Re: Rasterfile Format questions

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From: D. David David
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1989 01:30
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(andrew yeomans) writes:
>The sun routine pr_dump does not always encode RT_BYTE_ENCODED rasterfiles
>correctly, if copy_flag = 0 (compress in place). It seems to occur when
>the encoded image (up to a given point) is longer than the unencoded
>image, hence the original image gets corrupted.

Fixed in SunOS 3.4.

>/* The byte-encoded data format is as follows (not documented by Sun):	*/

Documented in the SunOS 4.0 pixrect manual.

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David DiGiacomo, Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA  sun!david david@sun.com
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