We've worked this out by experiment. Briefly - and from memory - it's a
list of byte pairs, like this:
Each pair consists of a count & a byte value to be repeated that many times
in the output stream. Hence, in a 1-bit mode, each pair represents an
8-pixel chunk to be repeated 'count' times.
A count of 0 terminates the list.
Counts never go over 160, so presumably the compression code starts afresh
for each line.
Obviously a real spec would be nice to find...
Richard
At 09:14 27/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
>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 ?
>
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