[comp.sys.amiga] DigiView RGB format

carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter) (05/23/89)

I'm attempting to convert DigiView RGB files to SUN raster format.  I grabbed
the FBM set, and tried to use raw2fbm, but it doesn't work.  Does anyone know
the format of the RGB files?  My feeling is that the 8bit/pixel assumption that
raw2fbm makes is incorrect.  Actually, I don't know how DigiView can store
21bits/pixel, and end up with the file sizes they do, unless they do some
compression.

  File:  -rw-rw-r--  1 carpent    795220 May 23 07:34 ~/hawk2.rgb

  768x480 DigiView 3.0 RGB file

  FBM, raw2fbm version 0.9, 89MAR07

  command:
  % raw2fbm -d3 -a1.2 -w768 -h480 -t'Hawk' <hawk2.rgb >hawk2.fbm
  %

  Subsequent utilities (such as fbnorm) result in "Premature EOF."  which
  suggests it expected more there.  If I use depths = 1, everything works, but
  the resulting picture is noise.  Yes, the RGB file works fine with DigiView.

I've been using that FBM for some messing around.  It is really a great
package!