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Recently, many people have been asking whether there is a standard image file
format for X and image processing/manipulation routines to go with it.

At MIT, we are nearing a final specification for our image file format.  It
will probably be called XIFF.  It was written by folks at DEC's Western
Research Lab, with help from DEC staff at Project Athena.  
Application-oriented people like me gave advice along the way.

There are at least three groups producing image processing/manipulation
packages that are very interested in having them run under/with X.  They are
headed by:

  Alan Paeth, University of Waterloo  
  John Rasure, University of New Mexico.  
  Georges Grinstein, University of Lowell

Tony Della Fera and I will be attempting to promote communication and
cooperation in this area.  If we can further the distribution of a public
library of useful and compatible programs, created without unnecessary
duplication of effort, giving everyone due credit for their work, we will have
succeeded very well indeed.

Please let me know if you are working or about to start working on these
issues.

			Steve Wertheim
			Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
			MIT