lispmtopgm(1) General Commands Manual lispmtopgm(1)
NAME
lispmtopgm - convert a Lisp Machine bitmap file into pgm format
SYNOPSIS
lispmtopgm [lispmfile]
DESCRIPTION
Reads a Lisp Machine bitmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output.
This is the file format written by the tv:write-bit-array-file function on TI Explorer and
Symbolics lisp machines.
Multi-plane bitmaps on lisp machines are color; but the lispm image file format does not
include a color map, so we must treat it as a graymap instead. This is unfortunate.
SEE ALSO
pgmtolispm(1), pgm(5)
BUGS
The Lispm bitmap file format is a bit quirky; Usually the image in the file has its width
rounded up to the next higher multiple of 32, but not always. If the width is not a mul-
tiple of 32, we don't deal with it properly, but because of the Lispm microcode, such ar-
rays are probably not image data anyway.
Also, the lispm code for saving bitmaps has a bug, in that if you are writing a bitmap
which is not mod32 across, the file may be up to 7 bits too short! They round down in-
stead of up, and we don't handle this bug gracefully.
No color.
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1991 by Jamie Zawinski and Jef Poskanzer.
06 March 1990 lispmtopgm(1)
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