gray@toffee.it.udel.edu (Scott Gray) (03/06/90)
I realize that I am posting this at the _great_ risk of being flamed, and yes I have read the weekly posting, but I have been wracking my brains for too long and need some help. Ok, for some odd reason I have never been able to find a sun rasterfile to GIF converter, I have looked everywhere. So I have taken it upon myself to write one. Well, everything works fine up until I get to the actual data compression. Could someone PLEASE give me some insight on how to implement the code for LZW compression, or better yet, give me some sample code. I have read the gif.doc that almost every anon ftp site has, but it really does not give a thorough explanation of it, and I have also looked for the suggested readings that are in the document, but I can't find them in our library, so any info would be greatly appreciated. A second question, related to the last one is: does anyone know the format of a Sun rasterfile as it occures on the DISK(raw),because I think that it would be a bit faster go direct rather than going through pixrect. I understand the header, but the colormap seems to be in an odd order; not RED[0],GREEN[0], BLUE[0],RED[1],GREEN[1],BLUE[1],...etc. as expected. Thanks, Scott Gray -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- + SCOTT - gray@freezer.it.udel.edu | "I'm, BORED BORED BORED BORED!" + + or god@vax1.acs.udel.edu | - Vivian + -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-