[Gdal-dev] read RLE BIL with GDAL?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Brent Fraser wrote:
> I've got some 8-bit Run-Length-Encoded BIL files I'd like to display 
> (using Mapserver with the GDAL libraries). 
>  
> Is there a way to have GDAL read them using GDAL's current list of 
> formats?  I can make HDR (or other header files) if you could give me a 
> few pointers...
>  
> I'd rather not do an intermediate translation to tiff if I can avoid it 
> as they are being updated on an occasional basis.  I could modify the 
> software that creates these files to create tiffs instead, but I'd 
> prefer a "quick" way to have GDAL read them.

Brent,

I'm afraid I don't have any code for reading the RLE format, nor do I know the
details of it to implement such support.

No help here ...

Best regards,

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