Thanks for answering,

We use BMP cause its the format that can most easily be appended.
As said before I do not need it personally, as I avoid anithing with IX for 
my personal use actually.


Which group would be the right group for my question for a LINUX-Scripter?

thanks
--Theo.



"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Le Forgeron wrote:
>>
>> Well, bmp is only the SYSTEM format for Windows...
>> What make you expect to get the same default for SYSTEM format on Unix.
>> Spec of 3.1e gives the SYSTEM format on unix as Targa, and allow to
>> switch it to either PPM or PNG.
>> I do not know what is the current choice for Unix sourcecode,
>
> It's PNG.
>
> Of course you should explicitly set the format to use if your program 
> depends on it.
>
>> but bmp
>> format just sucks!
>
> Actually i'd say there is no purpose for which BMP would be a good choice 
> of image format.
>
> BTW this thread is off-topic in this group.
>
> Christoph
>
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