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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