Re: ][GIF: What type of file is an RLE file?

[anoneds@netscape.net (Ben Yates)]

obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote in message news:<20040416001641.22218.00000518@mb-m06.aol.com>...
> Besides gifs, ][GIF has a converter for RLE files.  I tried searching for  .RLE
> images on Google, as I do for .GIFS, but only gifs and jpgs came up.  
> 
> What's an RLE file?
> JaY

Others have told you what RLE is.
RLE's were popular in the 80's, before GIF came along. They didn't
store color information, just picture, so they were used for
Monochrome images. I think they got their start on Apple-II's, because
I remember seeing source for Apple-II RLE's that got TI users started
on writing the decoders. There was even one put inside a terminal
program for viewing the graphics on-line.

I've got tons of RLE's somewhere, and you could probably find a lot of
them on the TI ftp site at ftp.whtech.com, in various disk
collections.

Ben