"Ken Krugler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From: "Denis Faivre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Does anyone know how RLE-compression is actually implemented in
PalmOS ?
> >
> >It is not present in PilRC 2.6 (although I have been told it could
be in the
> >Handspring version), nor documented in the Knowledge Base.
> >
> >All what I know about RLE is that it relies on detection of
sequences of
> >identical items. However, there are several encoding schemes.
> >
> >So the question is : what is the precise specification of PalmOS
RLE ?
>
> Searching the palm-dev-forum list at egroups for RLE compression, I
> found my previous post on this topic:
> http://www.egroups.com/message/palm-dev-forum/39500
>
> I don't know if the format has been formally documented by Palm, so
> use at your own risk.
The only question I have is:
Is the RLE used in PalmOS in any way Palm specific?
M$ .BMP (IIRC even IBM's OS/2 .BMP format) uses a well
documented format for RLE.
www.wotsit.org
is a great source for all kinds of file formats (MIDI,
dBase and a bunch more).
--
bye
ranf
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