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From: | Yamaha / XYZZ <scriven AT CS DOT ColoState DOT edu> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: NEED HELP reading header for pcx image file |
Date: | Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:26:40 -0700 |
Organization: | XYZZ Software Co. |
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Message-ID: | <32B59460.15FB@CS.ColoState.edu> |
References: | <593sb2$6k7 AT News DOT Dal DOT Ca> |
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To: | Graham Howard Wile <an118 AT chebucto DOT ns DOT ca> |
DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Graham Howard Wile wrote: > > I have written code that seems to read in the first 128 bytes, > which is the header for the pcx file. But when I look at it, it's > gobble-de-gook, you can't read it. I've even tried reading it as a pcx > structure. All my reads were done on the file opened in binary mode. Once > I read in the header via binary, it even shows as garbage when I try to > access individual header elements via my structure member variable after > reading it into the structure. Can anybody tell me what's wrong? Take a look at the PCX code on my page. It's written for DJGPP. My guess is that you're missing a "__attribute__ ((packed))" somewhere... -- Yamaha / XYZZ mailto:scriven AT CS DOT ColoState DOT edu mailto:scriven AT VIS DOT ColoState DOT edu http://www.vis.colostate.edu/~scriven/
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