[Gdal-dev] read RLE BIL with GDAL?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Thom DeCarlo wrote:
> Frank,
> I don't have the right computers any more, but way back in the days of
> yore... when I used to work on SGI hardware, there were example programs
> that I think were part of the Image library. One of these was a
> reader/writer for SGI's rgb image files in RLE format. Maybe there's someone
> among the GDAL users that has access to those example files.

Thom,

RLE stands for "Run length encoded".  There are a variety of approches to
run length encoding including stuff like the packbits compression in
TIFF.  Do you know if the SGI RLE format used the same exact format as
the RLE supported by ArcGIS?  If so, I might be able to dig up info on it.
Although, it still wouldn't be too high on my priority list.

Best regards,

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