From: "Martin Sodoma" <intimate AT bbs DOT infima DOT cz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,rec.games.programmer,comp.graphics.algorithms
Subject: Re: Palette Conversion
Date: 7 Jul 1997 19:21:00 GMT
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Microsoft Palette format (PhotoShop can load it) *.pal

typedef struct
{
	char lpchRiff[4];
	DWORD dwFileSize;
	char lpchPalette[8];
	DWORD dwPaletteSize;
	WORD wVersion;
	WORD wNumEntries;
} PALETTEFILEHEADER;
PALETTEFILEHEADER plfh;

CHECK these information:
if (strncmp(plfh.lpchRiff, "RIFF", 4))
	goto ERROR:
if (strncmp(plfh.lpchPalette, "PAL data", 8))
	goto ERROR:
if (HIBYTE(plfh.wVersion) != 3)
	goto ERROR:

THEN LOAD PALETTEENTRY array which is this size:
dwSize = (plfh.wNumEntries) * sizeof(PALETTEENTRY);

Maybe it helps.
	Martin