Re: Additional Information: Question about CGM support in plotutils-2.4.1

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

David L. Humphrey <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have some additional information on this problem.  I sat down and decoded
> the binary CGM file by hand in a effort to discover the problem.  It seems
> that there is an error in the encoding of the first Restricted Text command
> starting at byte 0x198.  The 0x0d byte at 0x19a does not belong there.  I
> removed it and the Microsoft products read the file properly.

That immediately raises a further question: what platform did you run
Plotutils on to generate that binary CGM? Was it, by any chance, a
MS-style platform (DOS/Windows/OS2)?  A superfluous 0x0d in a
supposedly binary file quite possibly indicates a file not opened in
binary mode as it ought to have been done.

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