[comp.windows.x] Xloadimage: Group 3 support?

joe@spdcc.COM (Joseph Francis) (10/02/90)

I compiled the xloadimage 2.0 relase, and attempted to display several
G3 images, but got a tremendous stream of errors, ending in a core
dump (because of a %s used w/o a string argument. . .)  Which . . .
makes me feel that it was not used, tested, or whatever.

1.	Does the previous release robustly support G3?
2.	Does anyone have a G4 support algorithm?
3.	Have other people used the G3 display option?

All replies appreciated; the G4 (tiled) option would be especially
interesting.  Also, Where can I find a concise definition of G3/4 
compression/decompression algorithms?

TX - Joe (JoJo, back from the dead)

he@spurv.runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) (10/03/90)

In article <4283@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> joe@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) writes:
>2.	Does anyone have a G4 support algorithm?

I think one is distributed as part of Andrew from CMU, distributed with X11R4.
Note, I haven't tried it myself.

- Havard

jimf@SABER.COM (10/03/90)

|I compiled the xloadimage 2.0 relase, and attempted to display several
|G3 images, but got a tremendous stream of errors, ending in a core
|dump (because of a %s used w/o a string argument. . .)  Which . . .
|makes me feel that it was not used, tested, or whatever.

That would be accurate, the g3 loader was a user donation.  I don't
have any g3 images to test with.  If you happen to have a couple of
small ones please send them to me and so that future releases won't
have similar problems.

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com