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From: Jan Hubicka hubicka@hor...
Subject: [9fans] XaoS - first useable version
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:07:21 +0200

On Wed, Sep 10, 1997 at 08:06:18AM +0000, forsyth@cal... wrote:
> >>(IMO). As I saw in doc, plan9 has its own image format (pic) so I should
> >>save it into it. But I din't found any library for that except tifflib,
> >>wich looks rather strange and non-plan9ish. Is there any way to handle
> 
> there's a separate libfb (<fb.h>), which is the one that supports the
> pic file format.  man 2 wrbitmapfile describes the libg primitive
Well, I was looking for wrbitmapfile man page, and is seems to be
missing in my archive. Please can you send me this pages?
(plan9.bell-labs.com don't respond for ftp tpday...)

Honza
> for writing Bitmaps to files.  Plan 9's version of that routine doesn't
> write a compressed format, unlike (say) Inferno's equivalent.
> the pic file writer in libfb can write compressed pic files, though,
> and you can then fiddle directly with images using the fb commands,
> so on balance pic might be the best one to use.

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