Re: Format of .bmp files

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From: John Keating
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1991 06:42

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esrmm@warwick.ac.uk (Denis Anthony) writes:

> Anyone got a document on this [bitmap] format. Much appreciated if so, or
> some source code to read it will do.

slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu replies:

> I believe it is documented in the ms reference manual volume 2.
> Although not necessarily clearly or accurately.

You might also want to check Petzold's Environments column in the 11 September
1990 issue of PC Magazine.  He describes the bitmap formats of several
versions of OS/2 and Windows bitmaps.  He has stated that he plans to do a
followup issue on Windows 3.0 bitmaps, though I'm still waiting for that one.

John
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