Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!brian From: brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: net.graphics Subject: run length encoding Message-ID: <964@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 15:33:15 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.964 Posted: Tue Jul 9 15:33:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:00:57 EDT Organization: UCSD wombat breeding society Lines: 12 I was recently given some image files that have a filename ending in ``.rle''. They appear to be encoded in some dense way. What is the format of this encoding? I assume it is some sort of run-length-encoding, about which I would like to learn more, so some pointers to references on RLE would also be appreciated. Brian Kantor UC San Diego Computer Graphics Lab decvax\ brian@ucsd.arpa akgua >--- sdcsvax --- brian ucbvax/ Kantor@Nosc