[anyone have a web address for info on bmp format?]RS has http://www.google.com/ that can bring forth many, in this case for "bmp format description":
In the 1980s, XBM files in the Unix/X-world also often had the .bmp extension, but this is a whole different format, text files in C syntax to describe binary images as sort of a hexdump.
See bmp extension - Img - [bmp2ppm]CRIMP can read BMP images.
Elsewhere, BMP is used to abbreviate the Basic Multilingual Plane - the Unicodes from U+0000 to U+FFFD that Tcl/Tk supports. [1]
We have a pure-tcl BMP reader/writer (updated 2007-05-15).
The tcllib ico module can read and write bmp images
- http://www.daubnet.com/formats/BMP.html
- http://www.cs.hope.edu/csci342/project1.html
- http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/section-18.html
- http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=graphics
In the 1980s, XBM files in the Unix/X-world also often had the .bmp extension, but this is a whole different format, text files in C syntax to describe binary images as sort of a hexdump.
See bmp extension - Img - [bmp2ppm]CRIMP can read BMP images.
Elsewhere, BMP is used to abbreviate the Basic Multilingual Plane - the Unicodes from U+0000 to U+FFFD that Tcl/Tk supports. [1]
We have a pure-tcl BMP reader/writer (updated 2007-05-15).
The tcllib ico module can read and write bmp images