color2ascii

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Name

color2ascii - write a biff band to an ascii data file

Syntax

 #include <xite/color.h>

 int color2ascii( Color_cell* coltab, int len,
    char* filename, char* type, int hex );

Description

color2ascii dumps the contents of coltab with length len as ascii data to the file filename. The format can be read by mct(1). Give filename "-" or "-1" for writing to stdout.

For information on the output format, see PrintColortable(3).

Parameters

len
This is the length of the colortable, i.e. the number of entries to be printed.

hex
If nonzero, print pixelvalue as hexadecimal numbers, instead of decimal numbers.

type
This may be one of the following
w
Truncate or create file for writing
a
Append. Open for writing at end of file, or create for writing.

Return value

 0 - ok
 1 - could not open file
 2 - bad 'type' argument, should be "w" or "a"

See also

color2ascii(1), mct(1), PrintColortable(3), colorquant(1), makepseudo(1)

Author

Svein Bøe

Id

$Id: color2ascii.c,v 1.13 1996/11/29 15:14:06 svein Exp $