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Subject: Re: sprites
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 05:13:53 GMT
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After six hours of torture, "Evan" <mec_manREMOVETHIS AT hotmail DOT com>
admitted:

>All I want to do is get a picture out of a .pcx file and move it around
>without using someone elses graphics library.

Dang, I used to have code to do this. It's not too difficult, uses
simple run-length compression.

Try getting the PCX spec:
    http://www.wotsit.org/wgraphic/pcx.zip