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- From: scotth@oniboshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: SGI FILE FORMAT
- Message-ID: <SCOTTH.93Jan22095624@oniboshi.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:56:24 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.145252.17916@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA
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- In-Reply-To: mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca's message of 22 Jan 93 14: 52:52 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1993Jan22.145252.17916@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, mbersohn@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (M. Bersohn) writes:
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- mbersohn> Does anyone know where I can find a detailed description of the
- mbersohn> file format of the SGI image files? This appears to be a closely
- mbersohn> guarded secret. Plenty of books will tell you about TIFF, PCX
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- Ahh, but will they ship source code on your machine?
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- mbersohn> etc. but the SGI hot line will not divulge the format of
- mbersohn> something.rgb. I have full support on my machine but all the
- mbersohn> support line could do was point me to some source code examples
- mbersohn> in 4Dgifts. With a few weeks time, many of the routines call
- mbersohn> each other, I might finally deduce what is the meaning of byte
- mbersohn> 0, what is stored at the four byte field beginning at byte 12
- mbersohn> etc. etc. It sure would be nice to have an explicit description
- mbersohn> so I could begin my real work today!
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- Just load dev.sw.giftsfull from your inst media, and look in the
- directory ~4$difts/ (darn, I removed it to make space, oh well, source
- to the imglib utilities and libraries is somewhere under there).
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