On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:06:23AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:21:57PM +0200, Kevin Boergens wrote: > > http://netghost.narod.ru/gff/graphics/summary/xbm.htm > > > > I need support for the X BitMap format. On the page mentioned about I > > found a few pieces of code from X to support loading and reading xbm > > (Very old indeed). I was not able to find out what Debian packages I > > have to install to get the needed headers to support xbm. > > Given no-one uses it, I don't think there are actually any packages in > Debian supporting it. Try stealing some of the code from that site.
!? Not only is it still supported[1] -- and not just by various X sample implementations, it's actually *documented*[2]. [1] atobm (1x) - bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System bmtoa (1x) - bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System pbmtoascii (1) - convert a portable bitmap into ASCII graphics pbmtoatk (1) - convert portable bitmap to Andrew Toolkit raster object pbmtoxbm (1) - convert a portable bitmap into an X11 bitmap xbmtopbm (1) - convert an X11 or X10 bitmap into a portable bitmap [2] http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/mxr/gfx/2d/XBM.txt -- G. Branden Robinson | If I recall correctly, devfs went Debian GNU/Linux | straight from being marked as [EMAIL PROTECTED] | EXPERIMENTAL to OBSOLETE in the http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | kernel config. -- Tore Anderson
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