Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> Huh?  What do you mean it isn't Targa?  I thought that TGA was just a
> shortened version... and that the file format was called Truevision's
> Targa... Or am I totally missing the mark here?  And if so, what is Targa
> and why do all Targa streaming video output boards stream TGAs if they
> aren't Targas?
> 
> Now I'm totally confused...
> 
> --
> Lance.

  Please look at the graphics file formats page for the answer
to his compelling mystery. The TGA specification is incorrectly
referred to as the targa file format and this mistake is repeated
on a very large scale in the graphics industry and by arm chair
graphics format expert wanna bees (which includes most of the
computer users who use any type of graphics program).

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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