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From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help -- Reading PCX Header
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 08:28:37 -0700
Organization: Institute for el. Measurement, University of Linz, Austria
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MCheu wrote:

> Sorry to bother everyone with this, but I've been getting some wierd
> numbers from the following programme.  It's supposed to read the
> header from a pcx file and tell me about it.  The first 4 values from
> the header come through ok (ID, version, encoding, bitdepth), but the
> next 4 (Xmin, Ymin, Xmax, Ymax) are way off. ...

> typedef struct {
>         char ID;  /* PCX id -- usually 10 */
>         char ver; /* version */
>         char encoding;
>         char bitdepth;    /* 8 for 256 colour files */
>         int Xmin, Ymin;
>         int Xmax, Ymax;
>         int Hres;
>         int Vres;
>         unsigned char palette[48];
>         char reserved;
>         char ColourPlanes;
>         int bytesPerLine;
>         int paletteType;
>         char Stuff[58];
>         } pcxHead;

with gcc 'char' is 8 bits, 'short int' 16 bits, 'int' and 'long int' are 32 
bits, so use short int where you want to read 16 bits. I prefere to define BYTE 
as unsigned char and WORD as unsigned short, so the programs are easier to be 
ported to another system.

Roland

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