From: Yamaha / XYZZ <scriven AT CS DOT ColoState DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: NEED HELP reading header for pcx image file
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:26:40 -0700
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To: Graham Howard Wile <an118 AT chebucto DOT ns DOT ca>
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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...


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