On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:24:47PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:29:55PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:24:38PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > [...] > > > Hrmmmm. Does anyone know anything about the .ras file format? I suppose [...] > > > If this is an endianness problem I'm going to become seriously enraged. > > > > I doubt it is. Anyway, Steve used an Ultra with Gimp to create them IIRC. > > ISTR that the word size is larger on the ultra than on the sun4{cdm}. > Perhaps some header data in the file format is misaligned causing it to > either mis-parse the file or read past the end. I may be mis-remembering, > it may be the vm page size that's different. Why should such info be coded into an image file format (even as a side effect)? It has nothing to do with representing the image! Part of the problem is my ignorance of the .ras file format. Is it basically just a memory dump of a region of framebuffer, and thus subject to the vagaries of the underlying hardware? If so, I'm very, very sorry I supported this kludge of a splash screen in the first place. (This is not to disparage Steve's work in cooking up these images; it's the file format I have a beef with, and the very non-robust functions that draw the splash.) -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six or Debian GNU/Linux | more legs and no brain. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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